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Rather belatedly, we’ve just received the official photo from the citizenship ceremony which took place at the Tower of London a couple of weeks ago. The photo features the 15 new British citizens standing outside the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers building in the Tower, alongside the Constable of the Tower of London General Lord Dannatt, [...]
Today a group of older people from the Positive Age Centre in Kensington came back to Kensington Palace to see their finished embroidery work on display in the ‘Victoria Revealed’ exhibition. Several groups embroidered flowers in muted tones at the end of 2011 and early 2012 for curtains in the room about Prince Albert’s death. [...]
A re-written and re-designed ‘New Citizen’s guide to Historic Royal Palaces’ has now been sent out to Register Offices in each of the boroughs in which we have palaces, which will reach 7,000 people over the coming year. Each new British citizen in Tower Hamlets, Richmond, Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea will receive a copy [...]
This week two special tea parties were held at Kensington Palace. To mark the end of her term as the Mayor of Kensington & Chelsea, Cllr. Julie Mills worked with the Outreach & Community Involvement team at Kensington Palace to organise tea parties for some of the most isolated older people in the borough. After [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
From wild and wonderful wallpaper, cabinets of curiosities and beautiful wood carvings, Kensington has everything to peak your curiosity and ignite your imagination. We’re looking for artists to create some craft/ making activities for our visitors at Kensington Palace to support our public programme of events. Kensington Palace has recently re-launched after a £12m transformation [...]
Today a community group (from the Abbey Centre in Westminster) took part in a stained glass making workshop with the artist Tom Bernecut, to create parts for a special chandelier for the summer exhibition at Kensington Palace ‘Jubilee – a view from the crowd’. The particiapnts went around the new ‘Victoria Revealed’ exhibition and heard [...]