Tourists at Buckingham Palace will be able to walk through its famous front gates and across the forecourt for the first time, just as guests do for official royal events.Visitors paying to go inside the London landmark from next year will get the chance to enter in the same way as those attending garden parties or royal receptions.It comes as the Royal Collection Trust (RCT), which manages public openings of the site, is also opening up its East Wing outside the traditional summer tourist season.The 2025 plan follows the success of this year’s summer opening when it welcomed a record-breaking number of visitors and allowed access to the wing, which includes the palace’s famous central balcony, for the first time since it was built 175 years ago.King Charles III is known to want to give people greater access to royal buildings – with a report when Queen Elizabeth II was still alive saying he hoped to transform them from ‘private spaces to public places’ as monarch. Delicate cleaning of a Chinese pagoda in the East Wing of Buckingham Palace in June Preparations are made in the Centre Room in the East Wing of Buckingham Palace in June Members of Royal Collection Trust staff walk through the Principal Corridor in the East Wing  Preparations in the Yellow Drawing Room in the East Wing of Buckingham Palace in June Preparations are made in the Centre Room in the East Wing of Buckingham Palace in June Preparations in the Yellow Drawing Room in the East Wing of Buckingham Palace in JuneThe 90-minute guided tours, from January to May and costing £90, will offer a more in-depth look at the history of the rooms in the East Wing at a time when the palace is not usually open to the public. How to get tickets to visit Buckingham Palace next year Summer Opening of the State RoomsOn sale from today via the Royal Collection Trust website. Booking from July 10 to September 28, 2025, open seven days a week in July and August and five days a week (Thursday to Monday) in September. Tickets: £32 per adult in advance, £35 per adult on the day. Concessions available.Garden Highlights ToursAn additional £15 per adult and must be booked in conjunction with a State Rooms ticket.East Wing Guided ToursFurther details and on-sale date to be announced in due course. Mid-January to late May 2025. Tickets: £90.East Wing Highlights ToursOn sale from today. Booking from July 12 to August 31, 2025, available daily. Must be booked in conjunction with a State Rooms ticket. Tickets: £90 per adult. Concessions available. The royal residence, which serves as monarchy HQ, is undergoing a £369million refurbishment to update the palace’s electrical cabling, plumbing and heating system over ten years.A working palace, it is the King’s official residence in London, and where he conducts his audiences and receptions.But Charles’s favoured dwelling to stay overnight in the capital remains his nearby home Clarence House.East Wing guided tours will be available from Friday to Monday from mid-January to late May.For the first time, visitors will be able to enter through the palace’s front gates and proceed across the forecourt, just as guests do for official royal events.Further details and on-sale ticket dates will be announced in due course.Guided tours of the palace’s State Rooms – which do not include the East Wing – are offered already at the palace during winter months, from November to January, with some tours in late spring and around Easter time.But the extra East Wing tours will be seen as a shift towards greater public access to the historic building throughout the year.Visitors will tour the Centre Room, from which they will have a view of the balcony and the Victoria Memorial, explore the Yellow Drawing Room, with its towering Chinese porcelain pagodas, and visit the 240-feet-long Principal Corridor.Meanwhile, tickets for the traditional summer opening of the palace’s State Rooms, from mid July until late September, and the East Wing in July and August go on sale today. People outside the Buckingham Palace gates, which will be opened for paying tourists in 2025 The Buckingham Palace gates were boarded up in March after a car crashed into them Guests walk through the famous Buckingham Palace gates for a garden party on July 23, 1931And new £1 tickets to Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse have been announced for 2025.The cut-price entrance fee will be available between January and April to people receiving universal credit and other certain benefits in a bid to make the royal residences more welcoming and inclusive to all.Those eligible can bring up to five members of their household along with them to explore the Berkshire castle or the palace in Edinburgh for £1 each.Guided tours of St James’s Palace in London including a view of the Chapel Royal, where Prince George and Prince Louis were christened, will also be available on selected weekends in spring 2025, following trial openings several years ago.Tickets and visitor information can be found at rct.uk.