Trends that bridge the centuries: historic royal...
Models sashayed on the runways at London Fashion Week this month, exhibiting the latest trends from...
Recent Posts for Historic Royal Palaces
Cribbage by Candlelight
Four carriages, a baggage car and a curate on horseback are just about to set off...
Royal Rebels: British royals and international...
‘British royal women should wear British clothes!’ This is how we tend to think of the...
The Masque of Callisto: Queen Mary, Queen Anne,...
In 1675, two future queens performed in one of the most glittering and glamorous performances ever...
Portable Palaces: Wax Hearses for Henry VIII
Henry VIII’s burial took place on 16 February 1547 in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. The...
Rookwood and Digby: Gunpowder Plotters
On the anniversary of the execution of Guy Fawkes, let’s take a look at the lives...
Restoring Hillsborough’s Courthouse Clock
An exciting conservation project has been undertaken in Hillsborough. The courthouse clock – which stopped over...
Preserving our Works on Paper
Laurie Gibbs is a preventive conservator at Hampton Court Palace. In this blog post, she gives...
Oh Christmas Tree! O Tannenbaum!
All of the curatorial team at Historic Royal Palaces wish all of our readers a very...
Queen Victoria’s jacket
An addition to the HRP Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection is this beautiful pink embroidered jacket, once owned...