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We recently held our first event in the new Community Room at Hampton Court Palace. The Community Room is in the historic Bayne Tower, where Henry VIII used to go to bathe. About forty people who had helped with the recent Community Bed project came to see the finished product for themselves, and before they [...]
On the coldest, windiest night of the year so far, a community group braved the weather to have a special after-hours tour of the Jewel House at the Tower of London on Monday. As part of a series of community projects inspired by the theme of coronations – to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Elizabeth [...]
As part of National Storytelling Week 2013 Historic Royal Palace’s Outreach team commissioned storyteller and author Helen East to write 5 brand new stories about Kensington’s first royal residents, William & Mary, especially for an Early Years audience. Each of these lively, experimental and interactive stories was premiered at a local venue in the week [...]
Back in February 2008 we held our first citizenship ceremony at one of our palaces – since then over 400 people have had life changing moments when they became British citizens at the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, the Banqueting House, Kensington Palace and Kew Palace. Last Friday 40 people made oaths and pledges [...]
January 26th – February 2nd marked National Storytelling Week 2013, and boy, did KensingtonPalace get involved! Saturday saw an engaging itinerary of storytelling and other activities for children, an interactive storywalk for under 5′s (find out more here) with storyteller Helen East, which featured tales of William & Mary, family story sacks and shadow puppetry! [...]
Later this Spring, a new exhibition will open at Hampton Court Palace – ‘Secrets of the Royal Bedchamber’ – looking at great State Beds, the people who used them, the craftsmen who made them and the rituals which surrounded them. To coincide with this exhibition, we are working with community groups to create a new [...]
Dinning room in Kew Palace experienced ‘Christmas make over’ this December! Inspired by the plants in the gardens, the festive season and the Georgian period one of our community groups decorated Kew Palace to celebrate Christmas and to show us how wonderful the palace can look (and smell!) during the winter festivities!
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Certainly not where Connaught Opera are concerned! Connaught Opera – Maria, Glenn and Nick – brought 2012 to a rousing end with their fifth concert with Historic Royal Palaces. Starting at the Tower of London in early July, they moved onto Hampton Court in late August [...]
On Saturday we organised a special Christmas event at Kensington Palace for people from the local community. After mince pies and Christmas cake in the Duchess of Kent Community Room, people moved into Victoria’s Bedroom where poems, stories and extracts from Queen Victoria’s childhood journals were read aloud, all interspersed with historical anecdotes. The event [...]