Platinum Jubilee: The Queen’s Accession - London - Until 2-10-2022

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Buckingham Palace
London SW1A 1AA


PLATINUM JUBILEE: THE QUEEN'S ACCESSION

Until 2nd October 2022

In celebration of The Queen's historic Platinum Jubilee in 2022, The State Rooms at Buckingham Palace will feature a display looking at The Queen's Accession to the throne in February 1952.

On display will be examples from the remarkable series of portraits taken by Dorothy Wilding, that formed the basis of The Queen's image on stamps and in British embassies across the world until 1971. Also featured will be The Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara, which was a wedding gift to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, later Queen Mary, on the occasion of her marriage to the future King George V in 1893. The diamond tiara was made by E. Wolff & Co for R & S. Garrard in a scrolled and pierced foliate form. Queen Mary gave the tiara to her granddaughter, Princess Elizabeth, as a wedding present on the occasion of her marriage to Prince Philip on 20 November 1947.

The Victorian idea of celebrating anniversaries by connecting them to precious metals is now part of everyday life in the Western world; many of us might have celebrated a couple’s Silver or Ruby Wedding Anniversary, and lots of memories have been shared in recent times about The Queen’s Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilees marking twenty-five, fifty, and sixty years of her reign. Each metal or precious material is more valuable and treasured than earlier anniversaries.

This year we celebrate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the first time in British royal history that this milestone has been achieved. Platinum is a particularly precious white metal, one of the rarest elements on Earth and much of the planet’s deposits are found in South Africa. Due to this scarcity and therefore how precious it is considered to be, it has become associated with a seventieth anniversary. Although visually similar to silver, it does not tarnish or rust, and therefore is particularly prized for jewellery and fine works of art, and as you will find in this trail, has also been used in photographic processing.

In this Platinum Jubilee year, follow our trail of works of art in the Royal Collection which use the precious metal of platinum in their production, from tiny pieces in Fabergé treasures and as the strong and yet workable frames for jewellery, to the use of platinum salts in the creation of richly detailed photographs.

Opening hours: Every Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday (For further details check website link below.

Admission: £30

https://www.rct.uk/collection/themes/ex ... ham-palace