‘The world becomes more evil everyday’: Happy New Year from the...
New Year’s Cards?
The first English Christmas cards were famously printed in 1843 by busy ...
Category: Kensington Palace
Who wore it? Researching Queen Victoria's children’s clothes
With the exhibition, Victoria: Woman and Crown, coming to an end at Kensington Palace, ...
Outliers: Queen Victoria's right-hand woman
Season Two of Historic Royal Palaces’ Outliers podcast is here – our history fiction ...
From the archives: Drawings of Kew, Kensington and Banqueting House
In this blog post, curatorial archivist Tom Drysdale presents some of his highlights from ...
Outliers: Mehmet and the Wild Boy in the court of George I
Season Two of HRP’s Outliers podcast is here – our history fiction podcast that ...
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, ...
Plant hunters: Victorian plants are brought to Kensington Palace
As we all know from our history lessons at school, the Victorian era in ...
Queen Victoria: a life in bed
I would not want to give the impression that Queen Victoria (1819-1901) was a ...
Wildflowers bloom at Kensington Palace
After a lot of hard work this winter by the gardens team at Kensington ...