Decadent art at Hampton Court Palace
Over the summer, the Communication Gallery at Hampton Court Palace underwent a re-hang of ...
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Up close with the finials | Secrets of a State Bed
Out of the 41 textile components of the state bed, the first to be ...
Displaying Queen Mary ll’s Exoticks Collection
You may well have heard of Queen Mary II’s Exoticks Collection (seventeenth century spelling) ...
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 ...
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 ...
A soldier and an artist: the life and death of William George Storm
In this blog post, Curator of Historic Buildings Dr Alden Gregory reveals the moving ...
Henry VIII and the men who made him
The life of our most famous king began precisely 528 years ago today, at ...