This looks like the most delightful exhibit! I hope our friends in the area get to visit it. What a wonderful way to experience royal history. I envy the curators job! I love the photos of her inside BP. The windows are open! And the artwork is stunning. Such grand rooms This would be so fun to take the children in your life too. Is anyone planning to attend? Please give us a recap afterwards! Im sure Im not the only one who would love a firsthand account! xo lulu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A new exhibition at Buckingham Palace – Royal Childhood – which opens on Saturday brings together more than 150 treasured toys, outfits and nursery items belonging to nine generations of children who have called the royal residence home. This looks like the most delightful exhibit! I hope our friends in the area get to visit it. What a wonderful way to experience royal history. Starting with the future King George IV in the 18th Century, right up to his namesake, Prince George of Cambridge, William and Kate’s adored one-year-old son, it gives an unprecedented glimpse into life as a young member of the world’s most famous family. Among the most eye-catching items in the display is a casket containing the first teeth of each of Queen’s Victoria’s children and a ‘behaviour book’ about her own conduct as a young girl. In the week of November 3 1831 she was recorded as being ‘very thoughtless and foolish’ and ‘impertinent’, while on Monday September 25 1832 she was described as ‘very very very very horribly naughty!!!!!!’ But it is the gifts given to younger members of the Royal Family over the years that prove to be some of the most fascinating. In 1932 the people of Wales presented the then Princess Elizabeth, or Lilibet as she was known to close family, with a miniature thatched cottage on her sixth birthday, ‘Y Bwthyn Bach’ or ‘The Little House’. It was constructed in the grounds of Royal Lodge at Windsor and boasts electric lighting and running water. Elizabeth adored the house as have many of her heirs. Indeed, her grand-daughter Princess Beatrice loved it so much that recently she arranged for some of the soft furnishing, such as curtains, that had become a little frayed around the edges, to be sympathetically replaced. Its miniature kitchen has now been recreated at Buckingham Palace. One of the most eye-catching gifts is the mini Rollalong Caravan given to Prince Charles and Princess Anne in 1955. At less than seven feet long, it still came with its own water, gas and electricity supply, a child-sized kitchen, miniature tea set – and complete collection of Beatrix Potter books. As it was not motorised the caravan had a tow-hitch enabling the Duke of Edinburgh to pull his children around the grounds of Buckingham Palace using am old Hillman Husky borrowed from the Royal Mews. Prince Andrew must have been the envy of his friends, however, when at the age of just six he was presented by Aston Martin a miniature replica of the DB5 used by James Bond in the films Goldfinger and Thunderball. Not only was the car fully mobile - with a top speed of ten miles per hour - it had all the gadgets famously added to the full-size vehicle: rotating number plates, a pop-up bullet proof shield, machine guns concealed behind the side lights (presumably without real bullets), a working smoke-screen and electric water jets hidden in the rear reflectors. More recently President Barak Obama and his wife, First Lady Michelle, gave Prince George an Alpaca blanket with a hand-stitched message. They also sent over from the States a rocking horse with a miniature polo mallet carved from an oak tree that once stood on the South Lawn of the White House. Other exhibits to look out for are an adorable soldier dressing gown worn by Prince Harry when he went into hospital for an operation when he was three and Prince William’s school exercise book. Prince George’s Honiton lace christening gown and the spectacular silver-gilt christening font used to baptise him are also on display along with the official announcement of his birth. Royal Childhood runs from Saturday July 26 until September 28 as part of the annual Summer Opening of the State Apartments at Buckingham Palace.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 07:02:13 +0000
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