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The Queens Platinum Jubilee has inspired everyone from artists, schoolchildren, bakers and musicians to come up with new creations to mark the landmark moment. And one particularly incredible work has now made its way inside Buckingham Palace to be seen by the thousands of tourists expected to visit for this years summer opening.

The Queens Platinum Jubilee Lunch is a six-meter-long art installation of a tea party made entirely out of felt. Created by artist Lucy Sparrow, it was first on display at a Platinum Jubilee street party attended by Prince Charles and Camilla during the central weekend of celebrations in June. Featuring a huge array of food and drink including sandwiches, biscuits, sausage rolls, crisps, and cups of tea, it is now in the Palaces Grand Entrance Portico and is one of the first things that visitors to the Palace will see.

Prince Charles and Camilla admire a felt art piece by Lucy Sparrow during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

Describing her creation as very relatable and very celebratory, Lucy explained to T&C that she wanted to make something that represented tea parties ordinary families would enjoy. It was very important to me that it was almost like a working class tea party, she said. Yes youve got prawn vol au vents but youve also got hula hoops and chocolate fingers. It was meant to be like a tea party that you used to get a kids parties and what would traditionally be put on at a jubilee.

Artist Lucy Sparrow with her Platinum Jubilee banquet made out of felt, which will be on display this summer at Buckingham Palace.

The installation is a joyous introduction to a carefully thought out exhibition which this year showcases jewels from the Queens personal collection alongside iconic photographs that they feature in. Platinum Jubilee: The Queens Accession centers around 24 portraits taken by photographer Dorothy Wilding at the start of the Queens reign presented next to priceless tiaras and other jewels. Famous pieces on display include the Diamond Diadem, which the Queen wore en route to her 1953 Coronation and again as recently as the State Opening of Parliament in 2019. Favorites like the Vladimir Tiara and the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara are also shown. As is the Nizam of Hyderabad necklace, which was a wedding gift to the Queen and she has previously loaned to the Duchess of Cambridge.

The Diamond Diadem, Bridge and Rundell, on display this summer at Buckingham Palace.

These are the Queens personal jewels, she wears them regularly but theyre very rarely displayed in public. So it is a pretty unique opportunity to see them in this setting and to see them alongside the portraits, thats very special, said Caroline de Guitaut, Deputy Surveyor of The Queens Works of Art and curator of the special display.

Dorothy Wilding was a leading society and portrait photographer both in London and in New York and first photographed the royal family in the 1920s. In May 1937 she became the first female photographer to take official coronation photographs when she was invited to photograph King George VIs coronation. The image opens the exhibition, along with the dress and coronet that the 11-year-old Princess Elizabeth wore.

The dress, robe and coronet worn by Princess Elizabeth to her parents coronation in May 1937, on display at Buckingham Palace this summer.

Platinum Jubilee: The Queens Accession is included in a visit to the Summer Opening of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace starting Friday, July 22 until Sunday, October 2, 2022.

For Visitor information and tickets visit http://www.rct.uk. Buckingham Palace is open five days a week, Thursday to Monday, remaining closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

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Visitors to Buckingham Palace This Summer Will See Queen Elizabeth's Jewels and a Jubilee Art Display - Town & Country