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Platinum Standard Private Tours ©
Luxury personal sightseeing tours with your own personal driver-guide
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Private guided tours in London, England, Ireland, France or anywhere else in Europe
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One of the wonderful aspects of touring with a qualified driver guide who has a great deal of experience is that the tour can be tailored exactly to suit your requirements.
Be it a day in London or several days in London to cover the area in greater depth, English country tours to classic places such as Stonehenge, Bath, Stratford Upon Avon, Windsor, Hampton Court, Warwick Castle, Chartwell. Or shall we go exploring an individual subject of special interest to you such as castles, historical country houses, English country gardens, cathedrals, gourmet tours through France, World War I battle sites, the D-Day landings, French/Italian/Swiss Alpine tours, a drive along the Cote d’Azur, vineyards of France, the fascinating city of Bruges or the wild and rugged country side of Ireland?
A very short list and description of the most popular English tours is given hereunder but the major feature to remember is that we offer specialist knowledge and that any combination of places in Europe can be put together to suit your time, your interests and your budget.
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 London
Be introduced to the development of London’s 2,000 year history, as well as contemporary aspects such as museums, galleries, parks or where the best shopping, restaurants and hotels are situated. Your guide will open your eyes to the secrets of the past and today’s life in our capital.
A one-day tour is long enough to drive by the major sites, witness the Changing of the Guard, a brief visit to either Westminster Abbey or St Paul’s and also experience over 900 years of British History at the Tower of London.
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Windsor Castle & Hampton Court
 Half day visits to both these royal palaces can be undertaken in one day, although it is quite a tight schedule. Windsor Castle, which was created at the same time as The Tower of London is not only our Queen's official home but where heads of state are entertained in the State Apartments. You will hear how the castle has developed over the last 900 years, changing from little more than a Motte and Bailey stockade in William the Conqueror's day to its final major evolution in the 1820’s under the patronage of George IV. Lunch is likely to be taken at a pub on the river Thames which serves one of the best fish and chip meals in Britain.
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Hampton Court, by the River Thames like Windsor, is however quite a contrast to Windsor - being primarily a Palace based upon pleasure rather than fortification. You will hear about its first creation as a Palace by Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey, through to its redevelopment by Henry VIII and William IV and his wife Queen Mary. This is also, of course, the palace with the famous Maze, the royal gardens of William IV and his Queen Mary, and indoor Real Tennis as played by Henry VIII.
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Stonehenge & Bath
 This is a classic but also another fascinating combination. On the one hand there is the still only partially understood civilisation that created Stonehenge and the reasons for its existence - and on the other hand we visit a beautiful city with real personality, which whilst being motivated by speculation has resulted in an elegant and distinguished 18th recreation of a Roman City. Furthermore in Bath one can explore the luxury the Romans enjoyed in their bathing spa.
There are also special little highlights to the day such as a visit to a preserved and restored house displayed exactly as a family in the period of the society of Jane Austen’s day would have enjoyed. Time allowing, we can drop in on one of two villages which still exist exactly as they were from the 14th-16th centuries.
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Stratford Upon Avon & Warwick Castle
 Once again an amazing combination of different periods in our history. In the case of Warwick Castle, we see one of Britain’s most dramatic castles and within, we see wonderful displays developing room by room, illustrating the Earls of Warwick who can be thought of as Royal movers and shakers, and by total contrast a Royal Weekend Party at the turn of the 19th century.
But Stratford Upon Avon is entirely about the life and times of Shakespeare which can be discovered at five different sites centred around the place of his birth.
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Chartwell
 A visit to Chartwell is your chance to get to know one of Britain’s greatest leaders, Winston Churchill, on a very intimate level. This was the house that was acquired by WLSC in his wilderness years in the 1920’s. It was greatly modified by him to suit his gargantuan grip on life. Not only this but this is a large and very delightful house and grounds to visit, always leaving visitors with a specially warm feeling about their personal pilgrimage to the saviour of the free world.
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Blenheim Palace
 This was the Palace gifted by Queen Anne, on behalf of the nation, to the first Duke of Marlborough in gratitude for the Duke's victories over the French in the wars of the Spanish succession, culminating finally in the Battle of Blenheim, and hence the name. This is an absolute masterpiece of Baroque architecture, created by Vanburgh, and there is the chance also to discover the State Rooms as well as Churchill’s birthplace and the wonderful grounds in which the Palace stills glows in the glory created by the landscape artist Capability Brown.
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Ireland
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