A royal arrival: the birth of Elizabeth I

Posted on September 6, 2019 by Tracy Borman

On 7 September 1533, Queen consort of England Anne Boleyn gave birth to her ...

Monarchy’s moderniser: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

Posted on August 26, 2019 by John Davis

Today is the 200th birthday of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1819-1861). Professor John R Davis, ...

Henry VIII and the image of a sporting man

Posted on July 26, 2019 by Charles Farris

Henry VIII is one of our most notorious monarchs, and like him or loath ...

Thomas Cromwell’s Execution

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Tracy Borman

On 28 July 1540, Henry VIII married wife no. 5, Katherine Howard.  Although he ...

Queen Victoria: a life in bed

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Sebastian Edwards

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

Posted on July 19, 2019 by Tracy Borman

On 19 July 1603, the Tower received one of the most famous prisoners in ...

Anne Cleve’s: extracting fact from the fiction 

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Tracy Borman

Anne of Cleves (1515-1557) has gone down in history as the ‘ugly wife’ who ...

An American visitor to Kew, summer 1753

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Joanna Marschner

In the summer of 1753, it must have been with apprehension and excitement that ...

A soldier and an artist: the life and death of William George Storm

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Alden Gregory

In this blog post, Curator of Historic Buildings Dr Alden Gregory reveals the moving ...