The State Rooms Buckingham Palace Tour

Explore the magnificent state rooms which are next planned to open to visitors in winter 2020 for exclusive guided tours.

The state rooms buckingham palace tour.

The tour includes a free multimedia guide available in a variety of languages. The state rooms are the public rooms in the palace where the queen and members of the royal family receive and entertain their guests on state ceremonial and official occasions. The palace has an incredible 19 state rooms which are used to entertain visitors with lavish banquets speeches and famously the pipers. The state rooms are beautifully furnished with treasures from the royal collection including paintings by rembrandt rubens and poussin as well classic furniture from england and france.

In other words you have a relatively small window in which to view the inside of buckingham palace as a visitor. However most of the time while you can see the changing of the guards and the exterior you can t go inside the castle. This tour activity will have a maximum of 100 travelers operated by evan evans tours. This was the first time ever that visitors got to enter the state rooms through the grand entrance used by those who come to the palace at the invitation of the queen including heads of state and prime ministers.

The state rooms at buckingham palace are only open to the public for 10 weeks a year july to september and a few selected dates in the winter and spring. Buckingham palace is recognised around the world as the home of the queen the focus of national and royal celebrations as well as the backdrop to the regular changing the guard ceremony. There are 19 state rooms which mainly reflect the taste of george iv who commissioned the architect john nash to transform buckingham house into a grand palace in 1825. If you selected for royal mews and buckingham palace option 10 15 entry at royal mews and 11 15 entry at state rooms.

The royal day out ticket allows you to visit the queen s gallery the royal mews and the state rooms. But for ten weeks in the summer and select times during the rest of the year your buckingham palace visit can include a tour of the state rooms.