This popular short break includes a Private Evening Tour of Buckingham Palace preceded during the day with a visit to Spencer House and Clarence House.

Sunday 02 September Join us for a welcome drink and to meet your guide. Dinner is optional this evening.

Monday 03 September Depart at 0930 for a short walk to Spencer House where we have arranged for a private guided tour. Spencer House was built in 1757 for the first Lord Spencer and is London’s finest surviving eighteenth-century town house. It has regained its full splendour after a painstaking ten-year restoration and eight rooms are now open to view and wonderfully described during our private tour by a very knowledgeable house guide.

You will be free from 1100 to explore the area or return to your hotel before departing for Clarence House at 1200. Clarence House stands beside St James’s Palace, and was built between 1825 and 1827 to the designs of John Nash for Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence, who resided there as King William IV from 1830 until 1837. During its history the house has been altered, reflecting the changes in occupancy over nearly two centuries. Clarence House was the London home of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother from 1953 until 2002. It was also the home of the Prince of Wales between the ages of one and three, when Her Majesty the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, and The Duke of Edinburgh moved there following their marriage in 1947. The Prince of Wales has moved from York House in St James’s Palace back to Clarence House, which is also the official London residence for the Princes William and Harry. The rest of the afternoon is free before departing for Buckingham Palace at 1630 .

We will supply transport in the evening to take you for your Private Evening Visit to Buckingham Palace for an exclusive private two-hour tour with a Palace Guide. Guests will be taken through the State Rooms on a guided tour and the history and architecture of the Palace will be explained. Your Palace Guide will also provide an introduction to the paintings, furniture and works of art, which decorate these magnificent rooms. The shop will remain open for you at the end of the tour; there is a wide range of souvenirs and gifts many of which are designed and manufactured exclusively for the Royal Collection. A glass of wine will be provided at the end of the tour.

Tuesday 04 September
Departure after a leisurely breakfast.

Price per person £365 (excludes dinner): £395 (includes Friday dinner) Single Supplement £100: Non refundable deposit £100:
We will assume you want dinner unless you let us know to the contrary
Includes:

• 2 nights accommodation with breakfast
• Welcome reception
• Sunday night dinner (if this option is chosen) Please state
• Clarence House souvenir guide book
• Private evening tour of Buckingham Palace
• All entries
• Professional guide and executive coaching (Buckingham Palace only)

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