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BRITAIN - The Official Magazine is the perfect choice for everyone with a thirst to know more about the UK's rich history and traditions. Each issue is a glorious surprise, packed with tales of kings and queens, heroes and villains and the stories behind our castles and cathedrals, stately homes and gardens, countryside and coastline.

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ROYAL DIARY • Read on for all the highlights of the year, from palace openings and royal-themed exhibitions to colourful processions and ceremonies full of pomp and pageantry events & openings

Perfect Palace • As Buckingham Palace opens the East Wing to the public for the first time, we pick the highlights of a visit to the Royal Family’s most magnificent residence

St James’s Palace

Wonderful Windsor • We pay a visit to the historic town that is now home to the Prince and Princess of Wales, and step inside its grand castle, a royal home for almost 1,000 years

Life BELOW STAIRS • From pages to cooks, from wet nurses to seamstresses, a host of workers used their skills to look after the royal family over the centuries. A new exhibition at Kensington Palace uncovers their forgotten stories

Clarence House

The Waleses at home • They met in student digs. Years later, the Prince and Princess of Wales have shared a townhouse, a farmhouse, a cottage and the wing of a palace

A ROYAL STAY IN EDINBURGH • Enter our competition for your chance to win tickets to visit The Royal Yacht Britannia and a stay on board Britannia’s sister ship, Fingal

Victoria’s SECRET HIDEAWAYS • When Queen Victoria needed a break from duties, these are the places to which she retreated

Highgrove

A TALE OF TWO PALACES • There’s more to Hampton Court Palace than the Tudors. It consists of two distinct halves, built in two very different eras. But both were intended as a show of strength, and the walls tell as many stories as the ghosts that haunt them

Banqueting House

Queens on screen • TV shows from The Crown to Bridgerton have brought the royal residences into our homes. But which real-life houses doubled as the royal palaces on screen?

TALES of THE TOWER • We explore the myths, history and rituals behind one of Britain’s most iconic buildings, which was a luxurious royal palace for 500 years

Brighton Pavilion

To the ’MOON & BACK • Royal weddings must be followed by royal honeymoons. Where have newlywed kings and queens chosen to spend the first days of their marriage?

Kew Palace

The King in Scotland • Holyroodhouse started as an abbey in the 12th century, and is now the sovereign’s official Scottish residence

Sandringham

Fit for a Queen • The beautiful Queen’s House has stood at the heart of Greenwich for hundreds of years

Castle of Mey

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Royally Good Stays • Historic buildings that once hosted our kings and queens are now open to the public for hotel stays. Pack those velvet pyjamas (embroidered with the family crest, naturally) and prepare to be pampered