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

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.

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’s 1953, and a young Queen Elizabeth II, a month before her coronation, is in Scotland to launch the new royal yacht, the Britannia. “I hope this brand-new vessel, like your brand-new queen ...

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 was the British royal family's private yacht from 1953 to 1997. With its many royal vacations and official tours, the yacht logged over 1 million miles, the equivalent of one ...

The last royal yacht, HMS Britannia, was decommissioned in 1997. It visited more than 600 ports in 135 countries during its 44 years of service. Local journalism is essential.

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 ...