Valances are almost always a component of state beds which are complex objects relying on an interconnected series of parts. Queen Caroline's state bed is made up of 62 parts! These three valances ...

Jane Boleyn (née Parker) was the daughter of Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley, a gentleman usher to Henry VIII, and his wife Alice. No record of Jane’s birth survives but she began her court service in ...

Highlights of Dress Codes will include two matching Liberty print floral cotton dresses, worn in 1936 by Queen Elizabeth II (then Princess Elizabeth) and her younger sister Princess Margaret when they ...

At 7am on 27 May 1541, Lady Margaret Pole – another victim of Henry VIII’s increasingly bloody regime – was led to her execution inside the Tower of London. But Margaret was no scheming minister like ...

24 choirs performing over one weekend at the Tower. Experience the heart warming power of collective singing as groups from across the UK come together for this unique choir festival. MDBrunch is ...

We are the independent charity that loves and looks after six of the most wonderful palaces in the world. We source a wide variety of goods and services from a large number of suppliers to meet the ...

We all love a good ghost story. And the history of Hampton Court Palace is full of chilling tales. Do Jane Seymour and Catherine Howard, two of Henry VIII's queens, walk the rooms of the palace? And ...

On 20 August 1704, during the reign of Queen Anne, a boy and a girl arrived at the Chapel Royal located within the heart of St James’s Palace. It was a Sunday, and they were there to be baptised, to ...