Celebrating Mother’s Day 2021 at the palaces
However you’re celebrating today, a very happy Mother’s Day from Historic Royal Palaces! Through the centuries, the...
Tag: Queen Charlotte
Oh Christmas Tree! O Tannenbaum!
All of the curatorial team at Historic Royal Palaces wish all of our readers a very...
Two weddings for less than half the price of one
In 2018 at Kew, we marked two bicentenaries. 200 years since the death of Queen Charlotte...
Royal Women and Science
During the course of researching the histories of Caroline of Ansbach, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, and Charlotte...
Inoculation and Courtly Dancing
Today, a new exhibition opens at Kensington Palace – Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte and the...
Kew the Music: George III and Queen...
A recital of Handel’s Sarabande in D minor played on the Chamber Organ at Kew Palace. The...
The Enlightened Princesses – in 6 objects…
On 22 June, a new exhibition opens at Kensington Palace exploring the lives of three German...
Waking up Kew Palace
Every spring we wake up Kew Palace from its winter sleep and get it ready for...
Mothers and Daughters
This Mothering Sunday is quite a good time to celebrate (quite literally!) the most prolific of...
The first royal Charlotte
I’d like to congratulate the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the birth of their daughter,...