Home educator visits include:
- A timed palace admission including all visitor routes open on the day.
Important information for your booking
Autumn 2023 - Summer 2024
Under 5s: Free
Age 5-15: £4.10
Age 16 and over: £4.10
Adults: £18.40
One paying adult must be booked per family group. Additional adults are free on a 1:10 adult-to-child ratio, and then any additional adults are £18.40 each.
Home education visits must be booked in advance. We recommend booking at least two months in advance as payment is due six weeks before visiting. This subsidised rate is only available Wednesday to Friday during UK term time, it is not available during school holidays or on bank holidays.
Please bring evidence that you are a home-educator with you to present at our schools desk on the day of your visit. We appreciate that not all home educators will have a Local Authority letter, or membership of a Home Education group. In this case please contact us via email in advance of your visit to confirm.
Entry time slots for self-led visits available at 10:00 and 12:30. All home education groups must be booked and paid for in advance.
There will be no school visits available at Kensington Palace between 04 February and 18 April 2023.
Crown to Couture
Self-led visits to the exhibition Crown to Couture are available for home educators from 19 April 2023. Admission includes the exhibition and all palace routes open on the day of your visit.
In this new temporary exhibition, the glittering world of the Georgian court will come head-to-head with the high glamour of the modern-day red carpet. Contemporary couture worn by high profile celebrities will be displayed alongside historic costume drawing fascinating parallels between the world of the red carpet and the world of the Royal Court in the eighteenth century.
Crown to Couture is included in visits available Wednesday - Friday during UK term-time, 19 April 2023 - 20 October 2024. There are two timed entry slots available per day at 10:00, 11:30 and 12:30.
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Payment and terms of booking
After receiving your booking request, we will confirm that we have made a booking for you by emailing you an invoice, which must be paid in advance of your visit date and according to our payment terms.
In order to obtain the subsidised entry rate, we require booking at least two months in advance, and payment is due six weeks prior to the visit. We often sell out of the subsidised entry rate, so please do provide as much notice as possible in order to avoid disappointment.
Please note that we cannot amend the booking numbers after payment has been made. Any extra tickets must be purchased on the day at standard group rates.
Bookings with less than six weeks' notice require immediate payment. The cancellation and amendment deadline is 17:00 on the day after the booking is confirmed.
We regret that no refunds can be given for cancellations or amendments made less than six weeks in advance of your visit. This includes non-arrivals on the day.
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