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Elizabeth Revealed

with Lucinda Hawksley

with Lucinda Hawksley

Update 27 November: In line with government guidance, Hampton Court Palace is closed until 2 December, but our gardens are open at the weekends only. We will reopen the palace on 5 December. Please read our FAQs

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Postponed - Dates still to come

Ticketing Information

Price: £22.50, including refreshments

Please note, this event has been postponed. New date to be announced soon.

We will be in touch with all those who have already booked tickets with further information. 

Separate ticket (advance booking required)

In the year of her Golden Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth II addressed Parliament saying, 'Change is a constant; managing it has become an expanding discipline. The way we embrace it defines our future.'

Those sentences are emblematic of a reign which have overseen tremendous changes. In Elizabeth Revealed, Lucinda Hawksley looks at the reign of the longest-serving monarch in British history and at the woman whose image has become an international icon.

 

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Lady Alice's Temple, looking west across the terrace and pond. This domed temple was given as a wedding gift to Lady Alice Hill by her brother, the 5th Marquess of Downshire in 1867. A circular seat inside the temple sits behind a screen of Ionic columns.
Things to see

Lady Alice's Temple

Take a seat in this 19th-century temple and enjoy stunning views of the surrounding gardens.

Closed. Reopening Thursday 03 December.

Hillsborough Castle

Included in all admission tickets (members go free)

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A lady and four young children walk down stone steps on the South Terrace towards the Jubilee Parterre. The South Façade of the Hillsborough Castle is visible in the background and a blue sky hangs above. The sun is shining brightly and highlights the nearby box-trimmed hedges and white flowers.
Things to see

Jubilee Parterre and South Terrace

Discover a charming formal garden and find out why the castle's 19th-century summer house is so unusual.

Closed. Reopening Thursday 03 December.

Hillsborough Castle

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A group of visitor enjoy a wander around the Granville Garden in the grounds of Hillsborough Castle on a warm Summers Day. The open iron gates of the garden are visible in the foregrouns and a blue clouded sky above is in start contract to the bright green of Europe's largest rhododendron, also visible behind the garden.
Things to see

Granville Garden

Take a moment in this elegant rose garden created by Lady Granville, aunt to Her Majesty The Queen.

Closed. Reopening Thursday 03 December.

Hillsborough Castle

Included in all admission tickets (members go free)

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The Tower of London Menagerie

For over 600 years, the Tower housed a menagerie of exotic wild animals

The Princes in the Tower

Murdered or survived – what happened to Edward and his younger brother Richard?

The Chocolate Kitchens

Where royal chocolate makers prepared this expensive delicacy

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