Royal Rebels: British royals and international designers

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Historic Royal Palaces

‘British royal women should wear British clothes!’ This is how we tend to think ...

The Masque of Callisto: Queen Mary, Queen Anne, Arabella Hunt and...

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Historic Royal Palaces

In 1675, two future queens performed in one of the most glittering and glamorous ...

Portable Palaces: Wax Hearses for Henry VIII

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Historic Royal Palaces

Henry VIII’s burial took place on 16 February 1547 in St George’s Chapel at Windsor ...

Rookwood and Digby: Gunpowder Plotters

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Historic Royal Palaces

On the anniversary of the execution of Guy Fawkes, let's take a look at ...

Oh Christmas Tree! O Tannenbaum!

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Historic Royal Palaces

  All of the ...

Christmas Tales from the Tower

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Beatrice Meecham

As it's ...

Feasts and Frivolity: A Tudor Christmas

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Beatrice Meecham

Christmas decorations in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace. © ...

Managing the building blocks of research at HRP

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Historic Royal Palaces

What is research data? Research is central to almost everything we do at HRP. Whether ...

A Head in the Bloody Tower - A glimpse of yet another secret

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Historic Royal Palaces

A beautiful and mysterious eye When I started my job at the Tower of London ...