Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace, home to King Charles III is the most iconic landmark in London and is recognised around the world. The palace boasts a total of 775 rooms, including 19 staterooms, 52 royal and guest rooms, 188 bedrooms and 78 bathrooms.

With the gilded ceilings and glittering chandeliers, enjoy a guided tour of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace. They provide the perfect setting for the many famous masterpieces from the Royal Collection.

In the company of an expert guide, you will be taken on a tour through these magnificent rooms at a time of year when the Palace is not usually open to the public.

Buckingham Palace’s 39-acre garden is The King's private London garden, but it has also played a key part in the busy calendar of royal events such as the Queen’s Garden Parties, which in an average year saw around 24,000 guests. For over 200 years the garden has been used by the Royal Family for official entertaining and celebratory events.

Enjoy a guided visit to the ‘walled oasis in the middle of London’. The garden is the largest private garden in the capital and boasts 325 wild-plant species, 30 species of breeding birds, and over 1,000 trees, including 98 plane trees and 85 different species of oak. Your guide will share stories of this infamous garden and answer any questions you may have.

The central feature of the garden is the lake, created in the 19th century and originally fed from the overflow from the Serpentine in Hyde Park. Today it is a self-regulating eco-system fed from the Buckingham Palace bore hole. The garden provides a habitat for native birds rarely seen in London, including the common sandpiper, sedge warbler and lesser whitethroat.

Other areas of the garden include the 156-metre Herbaceous Border, wildflower meadow and Rose Garden. Structures in the garden include a wisteria-clad summer house, enormous Waterloo Vase made for George IV and the Palace tennis court, where King George VI and Fred Perry played in the 1930s.