Works of art on paper: a few stories behind the images
When I give a talk about HRP’s collection of works of art on paper, ...
Decadent art at Hampton Court Palace
Over the summer, the Communication Gallery at Hampton Court Palace underwent a re-hang of ...
A Real Royal Visit: Princess Mary at Hillsborough Castle, 1928
With the new Downton Abbey film now in cinemas, fans of the show are ...
Up close with the finials | Secrets of a State Bed
Out of the 41 textile components of the state bed, the first to be ...
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 ...
An American visitor to Kew, summer 1753
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
In this blog post, Curator of Historic Buildings Dr Alden Gregory reveals the moving ...
Henry VIII and the men who made him
The life of our most famous king began precisely 528 years ago today, at ...