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Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits – A new exhibition

Sunday, 23 May 2021, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 0

The National Maritime Museum will play host to a brand-new exhibition, Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits – opening 28 May 2021. Over 150 royal portraits from across five royal dynasties will be on display. In a collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, it will show how royal portraiture was used over 500 years by [read more]

Diana, Princess of Wales’s wedding dress to go on display in Royal Style in the Making exhibition

Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 10:00 Moniek Bloks 0

With Kensington Palace reopening for visitors, it will give a little extra treat to those returning or, perhaps visiting for the first time, in a new temporary exhibition in the historic Orangery. Royal Style in the Making will feature some never-before-seen items from the archives from celebrated royal couturiers of the 20th century alongside their [read more]

Jewels! The Glitter of the Russian Court Exhibition at the Hermitage Amsterdam

Friday, 25 October 2019, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 1

This autumn the Hermitage museum in Amsterdam is playing host to a grand collection of magnificent jewels from the Russian court with “Jewels! The Glitter of the Russian Court” The exhibition contains 300 pieces of jewellery but also more than 100 paintings, accessories and dresses and other types of fashion. I expected to be amazed [read more]

I, Mary of Guelders Exhibition – Prayers come to life

Thursday, 18 October 2018, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Marie d’Harcourt, or as she is better known in the Netherlands, Mary of Guelders, is the subject of this exhibition in Nijmegen, I, Mary of Guelders. Her prayerbook has survived the times and has been painstakingly restored to go on display. Marie was born on 24 February 1380 as the daughter of John VI, Count [read more]

Marie d’Harcourt – Traces in the landscape

Wednesday, 19 September 2018, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Marie d’Harcourt, or as she is better known in the Netherlands, Mary of Guelders, will be the subject of an upcoming exhibition in Nijmegen, I, Mary of Guelders. Her prayerbook has survived the times and has been painstakingly restored to go on display. To accompany the exhibition, a new book Sporen in het landschap (Traces in [read more]

Historic Royal Palaces to mark the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birth with major new exhibition at Kensington Palace

Tuesday, 4 September 2018, 15:00 Moniek Bloks 0

On 24 May 1819, the future Queen Victoria was born at Kensington Palace. To mark the bicentenary of this event, Historic Royal Palaces has announced a major new exhibition at Kensington Palace in 2019. The suite of rooms occupied by the future Queen and her mother will be reimagined through a display of remarkable objects [read more]