British RoyalsPalaces & Buildings

King Edward VII's Middle Eastern relics shown at Buckingham Palace

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7th December 2014
<![CDATA[From November 2014 to February 2015, an exhibition in The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace will profile a Middle Eastern journey taken by King Edward VII in 1862, whilst he was Prince of Wales. Prince Edward was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Before his accession after his mother's death in 1901, he served as Prince of Wales for 59 years, one month…
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Palaces & Buildings

Hampton Court Palace gardener 'picks' Tower poppy

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18th November 2014
<![CDATA[As the process of dismantling the art installation at the Tower of London began, a long-servinggardener at the Hampton Court Palace was given the honour of the picking the first ceramic poppy. 66 year-old John Mould from East Molesey has served as a gardener at the Royal Palace for nearly 50 years. The gardens and estates manager, Graham Dillamore, said about him: “We were…
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Palaces & Buildings

Hampton Court Palace opens new gallery

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18th November 2014
<![CDATA[Hampton Court Palace unveiled its new gallery this week. The ‘Cumberland Art Gallery’ will now occupy the Georgian suite of rooms William Kent designed for King George II and Queen Caroline’s youngest son, William Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland. The…
Palaces & Buildings

Tower of London sees final poppy 'planted'

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11th November 2014
<![CDATA[The final poppy was ‘planted ‘at the Tower of London on Tuesday, completing the ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’, the ceramic art installation conceived by Paul Cummins. Cummins, a graduate and now PhD student at the University of Derby, handed the…
Palaces & BuildingsQueen Elizabeth II

Visits to Balmoral at an all time high

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6th October 2014
<![CDATA[The Queen's Scottish home has had a near record number of visitors this year. Over 70,000 tourists visited Balmoral this summer – a figure that is five percent more than it was last year. This increase in tourist numbers means that now, over half of the costs of running the castle are met by tourist revenue alone. It is reported that 40 percent of the visitors…
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Palaces & Buildings

Preview of episode three of Majesty and Mortar: Britain’s Great Palaces

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1st July 2014
<![CDATA[In the last episode of this series, historian Dan Cruickshank takes viewers through the developments that occurred to a number of Britain’s royal palaces during the nineteenth century and twentieth century. With the widowhood of Queen Victoria, the break out of the First World War and the difficult interwar period, Britain’s palaces faced numerous threats of damage and…
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