White Drawing Room, Buckingham Palace

Royal Palaces, Residences and Art Collection

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The Palace of Holyroodhouse

Visit the Palace of Holyroodhouse

The home of Scottish royal history has reopened.

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Windsor Castle

Reopens 17 May

Windsor Castle

Visit the oldest and largest occupied castle in the world.

Garden open from 9 July

Buckingham Palace

Visit the garden with unique access this summer

Buckingham Palace garden

London

Buckingham Palace

Open for garden guided tours

The Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Palace of Holyroodhouse

Open Thursday - Monday

Edinburgh

The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse

Open Thursday - Monday

The Round Tower at Windsor Castle

Windsor

Windsor Castle

Reopens 17 May

Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace

London

The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace

Reopens 17 May

The Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace

London

The Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace

Closed until further notice.

London

Clarence House

Closed until further notice.

West front of Frogmore House

Windsor

Frogmore House

Closed until further notice.

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Explore our rich programme of exhibitions, courses, lectures and activities.

Agatha Bas

Reopens 17 May

Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace

Artists represented in the exhibition include Titian, Guercino, Guido Reni, Vermeer, Rembrandt, van Dyck, Rubens, Jan Steen, Claude and Canaletto.

Open Thursday - Monday

Victoria and Albert: Our Lives in Watercolour

Discover Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's personal collection of watercolours, illustrating scenes of their public and private lives.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert watercolours

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HRH The Duke of Edinburgh

1921 - 2021

The Duke of Edinburgh

Learn more about The Duke of Edinburgh and how his interests helped to shape the Royal Collection.

Woman reclining on a beach

Trail

A liberal little library

Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House and the changing status of women in the 1920s

The idea of painting large-scale decorative canvases full of exotic birds in a formal garden setting was invented in Holland by Melchior de Hondecoeter (1636-95, see for example 405354). Bogdani was born in Hungary and moved to Amsterdam in 1684, where Me

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Birds

Birds, in their infinite and colourful variety, have long been a source of artistic inspiration.

A watercolour showing two studies of a horse. Both studies show the horse standing with its head lowered, eating grass. Corbould's original is shown to the left, inscribed below: Edward H. Corbould
The Prince of Wales' copy is shown to the right. Inscrib

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Royal Copyists

Explore royal copies of Great Masters in the Royal Collection

Explore the collection

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Publishing

The publishing programme includes beautifully produced printed books, apps and online catalogues.

A Warden talking about the multimedia guide during the Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace

Working for us

Find out more about working for Royal Collection Trust, and view our latest vacancies

Media at a photo-call at Buckingham Palace

Press Office

For media enquiries about the public opening of the royal palaces and residences and the works of art in the Royal Collection.

Picture Library

The Royal Collection Trust Picture Library can supply thousands of images across the entire range of the Royal Collection.

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The income from your ticket contributes directly to The Royal Collection Trust, a registered charity. The aims of The Royal Collection Trust are the care and conservation of the Royal Collection, and the promotion of access and enjoyment through exhibitions, publications, loans and educational activities.