Burberry and Royal Collection Trust Honor Queen Elizabeth II's Centenary Together

Approximately 200 items from Queen Elizabeth II's personal wardrobe are heading to The King's Gallery, Buckingham Palace this April, and Burberry arrived ahead of the occasion with a four-piece capsule built around the same design instincts the Queen trusted for seven decades of outdoor engagements.

The collection, created with the Royal Collection Trust, a charity and department of the Royal Household, became available on 12 March at Burberry.com, selected stores worldwide, and through Royal Collection Trust shops in London, Edinburgh, and Windsor. Its anchor piece is a belted car coat in holly green, cut from certified organic cotton gabardine and woven with contrasting yarns for an iridescent finish. Burberry made it at its factory in Castleford, Yorkshire, and lined it in organic silk printed with a new colourway of the Burberry House Check, inspired by the Old Stewart Tartan, a tartan the Queen herself favoured.

That new holly green check carries through the rest of the capsule with discipline. It covers a Scottish-woven cashmere scarf entirely and frames the border of a silk twill scarf printed with a hand-painted depiction of Balmoral Castle, the Royal Family's Highland retreat. The fourth piece is a gold-plated corgi brooch: the dog wears an enamelled check coat, and the Burberry Knight motif sits on a freshwater pearl at its centre. It reads as whimsical until you consider that the Queen walked corgis at Balmoral in Burberry scarves for half a century, at which point the brooch becomes something closer to portraiture.

The design logic behind all four pieces traces back to the Queen's countryside wardrobe: the waterproof practicality of British outerwear, the tartan references native to the Scottish estates, the headscarf pulled on for horse riding or dog walking in unpredictable weather. Burberry was awarded a Royal Warrant in 1955, and the brand's association with outdoor resilience made it a natural fit for a monarch who treated her country properties as working homes rather than backdrops.

The capsule was timed to coincide with "Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style," the largest exhibition ever assembled around the Queen's fashion archive. The show opens April 10 at The King's Gallery, Buckingham Palace and runs through October 18, 2026. Alongside the approximately 200 personal wardrobe pieces, many appearing in public for the first time, visitors will find never-before-seen design sketches, fabric swatches, and handwritten correspondence documenting how the Queen shaped her own wardrobe. Three Burberry pieces will be among them: a hooded riding cape from around 2010, an original invoice for a Burberry coat ordered in 1966, and a Burberry Check silk scarf from 2013.

The invoice, specifically, is worth pausing on. A purchase order placed 60 years before this capsule was designed, preserved well enough to hang in a Buckingham Palace gallery, makes a quiet case for exactly the kind of investment that Burberry is asking collectors to make now.