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 ...
Herbs through history: from the Tudors to today
Central to the kitchen garden at Hampton court is its collection of herbs, and ...
Henry VIII and the image of a sporting man
Henry VIII is one of our most notorious monarchs, and like him or loath ...
Thomas Cromwell’s Execution
On 28 July 1540, Henry VIII married wife no. 5, Katherine Howard. Although he ...
Queen Victoria: a life in bed
I would not want to give the impression that Queen Victoria (1819-1901) was a ...
From hero to zero: Sir Walter Raleigh at the Tower of London
On 19 July 1603, the Tower received one of the most famous prisoners in ...
Anne Cleve’s: extracting fact from the fiction
Anne of Cleves (1515-1557) has gone down in history as the ‘ugly wife’ who ...
Wildflowers bloom at Kensington Palace
After a lot of hard work this winter by the gardens team at Kensington ...