Waking up Kew Palace
Every spring we wake up Kew Palace from its winter sleep and get it ...
Category: Kew Palace
This month I'm liking..."A Bugaboo" by Richard Newton (1777-1798)...
A Bugaboo! by Richard Newton (1777-1798) published by William Holland ...
Gardens, Gardeners and the Great Pagoda
This week is my last as an Assistant Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, so ...
Mothers and Daughters
This Mothering Sunday is quite a good time to celebrate (quite literally!) the most ...
The first royal Charlotte
I’d like to congratulate the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the birth of ...
Explosive History at the Great Pagoda
In 1757, the Dowager Princess of Wales, Augusta, employed the architect William Chambers and ...
And then there was Fred...
Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales (1735) by Jacopo Amigioni Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty ...
Not Bad for Someone Mad: George III’s mathematical Exercises
Blackadder calls George III “As loony as a loon on loon pills!” and this ...
Buying Hair: New Acquisitions for Kew Palace
Developing a public collection is one of the fundamental roles of being a curator. ...