A Real Royal Visit: Princess Mary at Hillsborough Castle, 1928
With the new Downton Abbey film now in cinemas, fans of the show are ...
Up close with the finials | Secrets of a State Bed
Out of the 41 textile components of the state bed, the first to be ...
Take a tour of Kew's Kitchen Garden
Originally a small residential garden, the Kitchen Garden at Kew Palace was created and ...
A royal arrival: the birth of Elizabeth I
On 7 September 1533, Queen consort of England Anne Boleyn gave birth to her ...
Displaying Queen Mary ll’s Exoticks Collection
You may well have heard of Queen Mary II’s Exoticks Collection (seventeenth century spelling) ...
Monarchy’s moderniser: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Today is the 200th birthday of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1819-1861). Professor John R Davis, ...
Renewable energy meets conservation: the Hydro House at Hillsborough
To the very north of the park at Hillsborough Castle and Gardens, for the ...
Queen Caroline's bed undergoes conservation | Secrets of a state bed
As supervisor of the furnishing conservation team at Historic Royal Palaces, I am leading ...
Dahlia season at Hampton Court Palace
July marked the start of the dahlia season, but it is as the days ...
Plant hunters: Victorian plants are brought to Kensington Palace
As we all know from our history lessons at school, the Victorian era in ...