kensington palace
Exhibitions

Kensington Palace – Victoria: A Royal Childhood & Victoria: Woman and Crown

At Kensington Palace in the early hours (4.15 am) of 24 May 1819, Alexandrina Victoria was born to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (the Duchess of Kent), as Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent. For Queen Victoria’s bicentenary, Kensington Palace plays host to two exhibitions about [read more]

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Book Reviews

June 2017 Book News

The King Who Had To Go: Edward Vlll, Mrs Simpson and the Hidden Politics of the Abdication Crisis Hardcover – 13 June 2017 (US) & 13 October 2016 (UK) In 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her [read more]