Kew Palace

Kew Palace is another palace that belongs to Historic Royal Palaces; this palace is in The Royal Botanical Gardens Kew.
You need to pay to enter Kew Gardens unless you’re a member of Kew Gardens, if you want to see Kew Palace as well as the rest of the gardens you need to pay to enter Kew Palace.

You buy your tickets from the Visitors Centre that is on the path up to Kew Palace.

The Visitors Centre was manned by Kew Gardens staff but now it is manned by Historic Royal Palaces staff.

Click here for Entry Prices.

Kew Palace or The Dutch House is very accessible because the Access Forum and I helped make sure it was! We helped with everything from the floor surfaces to the text labels that came in the wrong size font, Even the Braille floor plans of each floor.

Kew Palace is a grade one listed building so we could not widen any doors, so that some wheelchairs may not fit in so the visitor will need to borrow a Kew Gardens one if they are able to transfer.

All the visitors to Kew Palace are able to reach every floor because we got planning permission to put a lift in; we managed to get the lift put in because we used the old privy shaft, so really the lift shaft was there already.

There are toilets by the Visitors Centre/ Ticket Office, that include Male and Female Disabled and a Baby Changing unit.

Also there is a Disabled Toilet in Kew Palace, but it is really for disabled people only.

Kew Palace hasn’t got an audio guide as Hampton Court Palace has.

Here there is an audio story about King George III and his families of fifteen children imagine that in one small palace.

There is a film show that lasts about 15 minutes that is to give you a bit more history on the children of the family.

Upstairs the story continues…

For visually impaired visitors to Kew Palace there is a Braille copy of the story for them to follow.

There is also a large copy of the story that you can ask for at the Visitors Centre. The Visitors Centre also sells a small amount of Historic Royal Palaces gifts including copies of the plates in the Dinning Room, £75 each.

You can borrow a MP3 player that has a hearing loop so deaf visitors can listen to the story too.

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