Jane Knight 

Breakfast at Charles’s pad

It's not too late to see the Queen Mother's former home, which is open until 17 October, if you buy a weekend package to London.
  
  


Tickets to Clarence House sold out by the time it opened for the first time to the public last week - but it's not too late to see the Queen Mother's former home, which is open until 17 October, if you buy a weekend package to London.

Travel company Superbreak (01904 644455), best known for its London theatre breaks, is selling trips to Clarence House until 8 October. The tickets are all for visits from 9-9.30am and include either a Friday night or Saturday night in London.

On display are the ground-floor public rooms used by the Queen Mother, with photographs of her grand children, a bronze bust of her husband, and Dick Francis novels on the bookshelves. Clarence House has been refitted, at a cost of million of pounds, as a home for Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.

Prices for one night's B&B plus Clarence House entry start at £47 per person staying at the three-star St Giles Hotel just off Oxford Street and go up to £153.50 at the Savoy on the Strand.

Superbreak, which runs behind-the-scenes tours of Les Misérables and Phantom of the Opera musicals, is also adding visits to St Paul's that include areas not normally seen on traditional tours.

The private guided tour goes into the triforium where Sir Christopher Wren's 1674 model of the cathedral is on display, as well as to the balcony where television crews film major events such as the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.

The tour also takes in one of the largest crypts in Europe and the tombs of some of the nation's greatest heroes.

The St Paul's tours are available on 23 and 30 August, 13 and 27 September and 11 and 18 October, and cost from £87 per person staying one night in a four-star hotel. Superbreak has already sold out this year's evening tours of Buckingham Palace, which are accompanied by a curator.

 

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