| MULBERRY | With a national collection of 34 named varieties held by the Queen in the gardens of Buckingham Palace, a tree in the genus Morus and its fruit (8) |
| ROSES | With a national collection of rambling varieties at Moor Wood in Gloucestershire, flowers in the family that includes apples, meadowsweet, pears, quinces and strawberries (5) |
| RODRIGO | Blind from the age of three, a Spanish composer whose guitar concerto Concierto de Aranjuez was inspired by the scent of the magnolias in the gardens of the Royal Palace of Aranjuez (7) |
| PIRATE | The ___ Ship, structure found in the gardens of Mulberry Cottage in Emmerdale (6) |
| FALLA | Composer of the orchestral pieces entitled Nights in the Gardens of Spain (5) |
| ROYAL | The - Ballet; granted a charter by the Queen in 1956, a dance company in Covent Garden whose founderchoreographer was Frederick Ashton (5) |
| GERARD | Originally a barber-surgeon, the botanist and superintendent of the gardens of William Cecil, Lord Burghley and compiler of the tome Herball (6) |
| FOY | English actress whose roles include Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall, the Queen in The Crown and Lisbeth Salander in The Girl in the Spider's Web (3) |
| SENTRY | One of the Queen's guards stationed in a box-like shelter at the entrance of Buckingham Palace (6) |
| MAUNDYMONEY | Specially minted silver coins distributed by the Queen in the approach to Easter (6,5) |
| CAMPANULA | A plant with typically blue or white flowers, the UK national collection being held at Burton Agnes Hall (9) |
| ORANGERY | Glasshouse for citrus trees, bromeliads, orchids, azaleas and other exotic plants, such as that in Kew Gardens or the gardens of the Palace of Versailles (8) |
| FORSYTHIA | Soft hairy bats found in the gardens of China (9) |
| DEFALLA | 'Nights in the Gardens of Spain' composer |
| HANGING | Leaving shot game dangling in the Gardens of Babylon (7) |
| LEEDS | City which is home to Britain's national collection of arms and armour, the Royal Armouries Museum (5) |
| PARLOUR | Location of the queen in the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence (7) |
| COLMAN | Olivia, actress who played the Queen in the third and fourth series of the TV drama The Crown (6) |
| PLOT | The storyline of a film, novel or play that "thickens", according to George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham in The Rehearsal (4) |
| MALTA | Country with a national flag bearing the George Cross, where the Queen (as Princess Elizabeth) and the Duke of Edinburgh lived for two years (5) |
