If you go 負かす/撃墜する to the palace today... you can have a picnic
LONDON, July 8 (Reuters) - 訪問者s will be able to meander unaccompanied through the gardens of Queen Elizabeth's London home for the first time from Friday - and enjoy a picnic while they're there.
There have 以前 been guided 小旅行するs of Buckingham Palace's 39-acre grounds, whose 現在の landscape dates 支援する to 1820.
But this year a 16.50 続けざまに猛撃する ($22.70) ticket, 利用できる until September, will 許す tourists to 調査する the gardens by themselves.
"We sadly 港/避難所´t been able to open the 明言する/公表する rooms this year because of the 現在の (coronavirus) 状況/情勢 as we might ordinarily have done and therefore it´s wonderful to be able to open the garden instead ," Sally Goodsir, from the 王室の Collection 信用 which manages the 王室の palaces, told マスコミ.
訪問者s will be able to see the gardens' 156-metre herbaceous 国境, its beehives, and 計画(する) trees 工場/植物d by and 指名するd after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and picnic on its manicured lawns while 扱う/治療するing themselves to some 王室の-主題d picnic 従犯者s such as a 一面に覆う/毛布 and cotton napkins.
伝統的に, the queen hosts three 年次の garden parties at the palace but these have had to be cancelled for the last two years because of the pandemic. Likewise, the 開始 of the 明言する/公表する rooms to the public during the summer months, which has taken place since 1993, has also not been able to go ahead.
Last month, 公式の/役人s said 王室の 財政/金融s had taken a 攻撃する,衝突する from the pandemic, losing out on the millions 普通は received from ticket sales.
The palace is part way through a 10-year 369 million 続けざまに猛撃する refit to 取って代わる 電気の wiring, boilers, and refurbish other ageing 組織/基盤/下部構造.
Work has been 加速するd during the pandemic while the queen has spent most of the her time at her Windsor 城 home outside London.
($1 = 0.7265 続けざまに猛撃するs) (報告(する)/憶測ing by Michael Holden; editing by John Stonestreet)