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.

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.

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

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 ...

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.