Archive for April, 2012
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On Saturday we had a special day at Kensington Palace dedicated to Queen Victoria and the most famous writer of her reign, Charles Dickens, as part of the 200th anniversary celebrations of Dickens’ birth. Fifty people from the local area came to discover Victoria’s story in the Palace’s new ‘Victori Revealed’ exhibition, learn about the [...]
One of our projects linked to the Diamond Jubilee is creating 120 printed tablecloths for use at some of the jubilee events at Hampton Court and some of the other palaces over the coming months. Working with the illustrator and artist Emma Rios, people at the Avenue Club in Kew (Richmond) used specially designed screens [...]
Thanks to everyone who came to the Artist Residency celebration last night at Kensington! It was such a lovely evening and great to see so many people there. It was the perfect way to end a fantastic residency and also to thank Natalie Ryde for all her hard work over the last year. For more [...]
Today, the author Harriet Castor gave a talk to students from two Kingston schools, Tiffin boys school and Tolworth girls school. Harriet was talking about her fantastic new book VIII where she gets inside the mind of Henry VIII. The students, all of whom had read the book, were very excited to meet the author [...]
Sorry about the pun but wanted to share some of the outcomes of the cake decoration course on Saturday! Here’s one cake that a particpant iced and decorated. Everyone came up with some amazing designs. See some more here! For more information about Queen Victoria’s wedding cake of 1840 go to the Royal Collection wesbite [...]
Did you know that Queen Victoria’s wedding cake was 3 metres in circumference and weighed more than 140 kg! Taking this as inspiration, we ran our first creative workshop today as part of our spring adult learning programme at Kensington Palace. Cake artist, Rachel Mount, led participants through the skills and techniques required for master cake decorating. Each person [...]
Last week over 250 people from Kensington Palace’s local borough came for a special evening reception at the palace and had a private view of the new ‘Victoria Revealed’ exhibition. The guests were a mix of people, particularly those who might not normally visit the palace, and ranged from refugee groups to residents’ associations. Abdulkadir [...]
This Easter, to celebrate the representation of the Crown Jewels and HM The Queen’s Jubilee year, families created and designed their own crowns and discovered the stories and secrets of some of the famous jewels in the collection. Again we were very busy with an average of 400 children a day taking part in the [...]
On the back of Hampton Court’s latest exhibition ‘The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned’, we’ve been looking at the many mistresses of Charles II, the ‘merry monarch’ himself, who had a succession of lovely ladies from Nell Gwyn to Barbara Villiers (pictured above, looking fierce) . How were they able to gain such prominent positions [...]