Get into the festive spirit at Hampton Court Palace this Christmas. Savour historic Tudor cookery and revel in festive tunes from the past. This festive season, experience Tudor cookery in Henry ...

No-dig gardening stores carbon dioxide in the soil while digging releases carbon into the atmosphere. By preventing soil disturbance, the no-dig method offers an environmentally friendly approach to ...

When an area is coppiced, more sunlight can enter the woodland floor, allowing other plants to thrive. In our gardens, bluebells, wood anemones and marsh marigolds bloom the next year, followed by ...

The Whitehall Palace fire started on the afternoon of 4 January 1698, when a Dutch maidservant was drying linen sheets on a charcoal brazier in a bed chamber at Whitehall Palace.

Step into the home of Princess Victoria and experience the magical atmosphere of a Regency Christmas, brought back to life at Kensington Palace. Enter a world of flickering candles, theatrical ...

The son of a blacksmith from Putney, Thomas Cromwell enjoyed a meteoric rise in Henry VIII’s service. When his first prominent patron, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey fell from grace in 1529, Cromwell was one ...

Originally part of Henry VIII’s estate, Home Park is a protected landscape with ancient trees, rare insects and lowland acid grassland, grazed by the fallow deer descended from his reign. Autumn marks ...

Work on Queen Caroline’s State Bed, which we care for on behalf of the Royal Collection Trust, continues in the Conservation Studio at Hampton Court Palace. In our last post, we shared our progress on ...

Discover the story of Princess Victoria, the young girl destined to be queen, in the rooms where she was born and raised at Kensington Palace. This permanent exhibition, opened to celebrate the 200th ...

Discover never-before-seen royal and court fashion treasures in Dress Codes, a new exhibition at Kensington Palace. Explore the codes and conventions of royal clothing, and the powerful impact fashion ...