Its doors briefly closed, the Presence Chamber at Kensington Palace has reopened with a throne canopy...
These past few months we’ve been busy finishing the Queen Anne throne canopy conservation; tying together...
Happy New Year and welcome back! For our first post of 2017 we would like to take...
We recently moved out of the conservation studio and into the (rather chilly) Queen’s Guard Chamber...
The main conservation treatment of the cloth of state from the throne canopy has now been completed...
As we get closer to the installation date, our current priority is to ensure that all the...
At first glance, the coat of arms embroidery appears to be one whole piece. It is...
In July we told you about the hole we discovered behind the coat of arms when separating...
It has been a time consuming process dyeing the support fabrics, net, ribbons and threads needed...
In the Presence Chamber at Kensington Palace, HRP’s building surveyors unexpectedly discovered historic fixings in the...