Life Guards on parade in the Mall
Our Royal London tour includes the services of a Blue Badge guide, whom we meet in Trafalgar Square for morning coffee (included). After a short walk to see the Changing of the Queen’s Life Guards we board our coach for an entertaining tour which traces the story of where the royals have lived over the past 1,200 years. We look at birth places, scandals and successes.
We break for lunch on the South Bank, with a choice of cafés and restaurants, or you can bring a packed lunch.
We then go to Buckingham Palace. In celebration of the Queen’s historic Platinum Jubilee the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace feature a display looking at the Queen’s accession to the throne in February 1952. On display are examples from the remarkable series of portraits taken by Dorothy Wilding that formed the basis of the Queen’s image on stamps and in British embassies across the world until 1971.
There will be time to buy afternoon refreshments in the marquee in the garden before heading home at 5.50pm.
♦ Cost: £59
| Coach departure places and times (please note early start) |
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| 8.30am | Brockham Middle Street near junction with Oakdene Road |
| 8.40am | Dorking outside Dorking Halls |
| 8.45am | Dorking opposite Waitrose |
| 8.50am | Dorking Knoll Road bus stop (on Horsham Road between Harrow Road East and Tower Hill Road) |
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