For two months in the summer visitors have the chance to look round Buckingham Palace and admire the interiors of this principle royal residence. The State Rooms tour includes a look at some exquisite royal gifts including Faberge Eggs, and a walk through the Royal Mews, which is still a functioning stable facility. This year, there's a special exhibition, Queen & Commonwealth: The Royal Tour, showing the Queen's dresses and jewels, as well as photographs and gifts presented to her by the people of the Commonwealth. The exhibition marks the 60th anniversary of the London Declaration of 1949 which recognised the British Sovereign as Head of the Commonwealth. Visitors are also permitted access to the impressive State Rooms which are still used by the Royal Family to receive and entertain guests on state and ceremonial occasions. Decorated in lavish fashion, they include paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and Canaletto, Sevres porcelain and some of the finest English and French furniture in the world. This is a fascinating opportunity to admire the taste - often wonderful, sometimes comically bad - of Britain's monarchy.
(Image: Evening dress worn during the State Visit to Singapore, 1972. Designed by Norman Hartnell)
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For two months in the summer visitors have the chance to look round 
