Buckingham Palace lobbied Sir John Major’s government for a £50m replacement of the Royal Yacht Britannia, newly released ...

An escalator leading to the Royal Yacht Britannia. Coren Feldman On a trip to Scotland in 2023, I booked a ticket for the Royal Yacht Britannia museum, which costs £19.50, or around $25, for adults.

It was a struggle to get the royal car on board. When the 412-ft yacht was built in 1953, it was considered important that it had a garage to house the Queen’s Rolls Royce.

The Royal Yacht Britannia at the 1977 Spithead Fleet Review on occasion of the Silver Jubilee of the reign of Queen Elisabeth II. U.S. Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ...

The royal family has a long history of seafaring—the first official royal yacht was the HMY Mary (HMY stands for His or Her Majesty's Yacht), gifted to Charles II by the Dutch in 1660.

The Royal Yacht Britannia was the royal family's private yacht from 1953 to 1997. The Queen once said that "Britannia is the one place where I can truly relax." The ship has made several ...

At the decommissioning ceremony, she shed a rare public tear. The Royal Yacht Britannia is now open to the public as a museum in Edinburgh, Scotland. An escalator leading to the Royal Yacht Britannia.