Buckingham Palace Summer Opening and Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration

Visit Buckingham Palace, one of the world's few remaining working royal palaces, in London this summer. 

To celebrate The Queen's Diamond Jubilee, there's a special exhibition of royal diamonds.

Inside Buckingham Palace

You can explore lavishly furnished rooms containing some of the greatest treasures from the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace. Highlights include:

• Paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, Vermeer, Poussin, Canaletto and Claude
• Sculpture by Canova and Chantrey
• Exquisite examples of Sèvres porcelain
• Some of the finest English and French furniture in the world

Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration

This year The Queen celebrates her Diamond Jubilee – the only monarch to reach such a landmark, other than Queen Victoria.

To celebrate, Buckingham Palace is displaying a spectacular array of diamonds worn by The Queen and other monarchs over the past 200 years.

Discover the historical, political and diplomatic significance the jewels hold, and follow their journeys down the generations and between allies – or enemies.

Diamonds Exhibition Highlights

The Jubilee exhibition, Diamonds, has several highlights:

• Coronation Necklace and Earrings created for Queen Victoria and later worn by Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth (The Queen Mother) and The Queen at their coronations
• Queen Victoria's Fringe Brooch, created in 1856 and designed to be worn along the top of the fashionably low-cut bodices of the period
• Small diamond crown, 1870: a favourite of Queen Victoria because of its lightness, despite being encrusted with 1,187 diamonds
• The Girls of Great Britain Tiara, a wedding present to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck (later Queen Mary) on behalf of the "Girls of Great Britain and Ireland". Now frequently worn by The Queen
• The Williamson Brooch, presented to the then Princess Elizabeth on her 21st birthday in 1947, which incorporates the finest pink diamond ever discovered
• An 18th-century bloodstone box made for King Frederick the Great of Prussia, with nearly 3,000 diamonds

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