Tourists visiting Buckingham Palace when it opens for the summer season will be able to experience a taste of royal hospitality for the first time . Paying tourists will now be allowed to enter the State Rooms through the Grand Entrance - just like a visiting head of state - as they are given unique insight into the preparations that go into hosting opulent state banquets , investitures , garden parties and private audiences . As such , this year 's annual summer opening exhibition is entitled , A Royal Welcome , as the Palace reveals just how it copes with the 62,000 guests it entertains each year . Forthcoming exhibition , A Royal Welcome , will reveal exactly how Buckingham Palace prepares for its opulent events , like state banquets . Anna Reynolds , the curator of the summer season exhibit , prepares a silver gilt centrepiece , which will be on display from June . In the ballroom , the horseshoe shaped table will be set for a state banquet , complete with silver gilt centrepieces , candelabra and 170 place settings using 2,000 pieces of cutlery . Also on display will be the Grand Service , which has been used by successive monarchs for 200 years and was originally commissioned by George IV when he was Prince Regent . It consists of 12 ice-pails , 14 soup tureens , 118 salt cellars , 140 dishes , 288 dinner plates , 58 dessert stands and centrepieces , and 107 candelabra . Each year , the Palace hosts 62,000 guests , many of whom will eat dinner in the ballroom at a horseshoe shaped table . A mustard and salt cellar from 1721 is among the items used at state banquets , and will be included in the summer opening display . A nautical themed silver gilt salt cellar is another item that will be available for paying tourists to view during the summer season . Little known facts will also be revealed during the exhibition . For example , at a state banquet , a special salt cellar with two compartments for salt and mustard , originally acquired by George I , is placed in front of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh . A newly commissioned time lapse film will also show how the grand room is transformed for the elaborate banquets , which are hosted for foreign heads of state who are carrying out formal visits to the UK . Visitors will also have the chance to see the copper moulds used to create chocolate bombe desserts , the red leather seating planner and evening dresses and glittering jewellery worn by the Queen at high-profile state affairs . Other outfits on display will be hats and ensembles worn by the Monarch to her garden parties . Visitors will also have the chance to see the copper moulds used to create chocolate bombe desserts and the red leather seating planner . Evening dresses and glittering jewellery worn by the Queen herself at such high-profile state affairs will also be available to view . There are usually three garden parties held at Buckingham Palace every year , each with 8,000 guests who consume around 27,000 cups of tea , 20,000 sandwiches and 20,000 cakes . The exhibition will also include the knighting stool and knighting sword used by the Queen and other members of the royal family to confer knighthoods at investitures . This year 's summer opening of the state rooms at Buckingham Palace - which includes the exhibition A Royal Welcome - will run from July 25 to September 27 , 2015 .
When it opens for the summer season , tourists will get to see how the Palace copes with its 62,000 yearly guests . This year 's annual exhibition is entitled , Queen , and will display preparations that go into state banquets . Also on display will be : silver centrepieces , red leather seating planner and elaborate dresses worn by the A Royal Welcome .