Up close with the finials | Secrets of a State Bed
Out of the 41 textile components of the state bed, the first to be ...
Take a tour of Kew's Kitchen Garden
Originally a small residential garden, the Kitchen Garden at Kew Palace was created and ...
A royal arrival: the birth of Elizabeth I
On 7 September 1533, Queen consort of England Anne Boleyn gave birth to her ...
Displaying Queen Mary ll’s Exoticks Collection
You may well have heard of Queen Mary II’s Exoticks Collection (seventeenth century spelling) ...
Henry VIII and the image of a sporting man
Henry VIII is one of our most notorious monarchs, and like him or loath ...
Thomas Cromwell’s Execution
On 28 July 1540, Henry VIII married wife no. 5, Katherine Howard. Although he ...
Queen Victoria: a life in bed
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
On 19 July 1603, the Tower received one of the most famous prisoners in ...
Anne Cleve’s: extracting fact from the fiction
Anne of Cleves (1515-1557) has gone down in history as the ‘ugly wife’ who ...
Wildflowers bloom at Kensington Palace
After a lot of hard work this winter by the gardens team at Kensington ...