When is buckingham palace open to the public in 2017

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These are the grand spaces, where the Queen hosts receptions and entertains guests. Visitors in will see the new Royal Gifts exhibition, an extensive look at the presents the Queen has been given during her year reign. Highlights include a Union Flag worn by Tim Peake during his spacewalk last year, a fossilised dinosaur bone, an honorary Bafta, an enamel TfL roundel for Buckingham Palace, a gold casket from Prince Rainier of Monaco, a sperm whale tooth necklace from Fiji and a silk prayer shawl blessed by the Dalai Lama.

This summer, Buckingham Palace is also home to a Princess Diana tribute. A visit to the State Rooms usually takes up to two and a half hours. Picnics are encouraged. The private grounds of Queen Elizabeth II's London palace have been a green, royal retreat in the heart of the city since the reign of James I. It was part of a royal estate well before the original palace was built in , and has seen all sorts of uses.

It has hosted grand garden parties, conferring of knighthoods at the end of a sword, and even silkworm farming by the more eccentric royal occupants. Today the "walled oasis in the middle of London" is host to a landscaped lake and trees and metres of herbaceous border.

Rare plants, imported from every corner of the world, planted and often named for the royal residents. Green-fingered Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were particularly prolific in lining the garden with exotic trees. There's also space for the less botanically-minded monarchs. YOU Magazine.

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