Royal Collection Trust Marks the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with Audio Description

The Royal Collection Trust which looks after the public opening of the Official Residences of The Queen and cares for the Royal Collection will be marking the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with accessible events for blind and partially sighted people 

RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey was joined by Amy Stocker, Access Manager from the Royal Collection Trust to find out more about their accessible events for blind and partially sighted people in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

The Royal Collection Trust events that are on from the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebration Weekend, through out the summer and beyond with audio description include:

The Summer Opening of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace with a display of portraits of The Queen taken by Dorothy Wilding alongside items of Her Majesty’s personal jewellery worn for the portrait sittings, from July to October.

On display at Windsor Castle are the  Coronation Dress and Robe of Estate worn by the Queen for her Coronation at Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953, from July to September.

And at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh there will be a display of outfits worn by Her Majesty on occasions to celebrate the Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilees, from July to September.

Audio described recorded guides are available via a handset for each display and personal descriptive tours with a guide can be booked in advance with two weeks notice to ensure that a guide will be available.   

Amy also picked out an object from the RCT collection which for her sums up the Queen’s 70 years of service.

The Royal Collection Trust run monthly online audio described tours of works of art from the collection via Zoom on the first Tuesday of the month and more details about these tours along with more about the Jubilee celebration events can be found by visiting their website - https://www.rct.uk

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