Brooches, a ring and a necklace made from the largest diamond ever found go on display at Buckingham Palace this summer.
Brooches, a ring and a necklace made from the largest diamond ever found go on display at Buckingham Palace this summer.
Almost 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci’s death, technology has brought the artist’s ground-breaking studies of the human body to life. An iPad app, Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomy, allows the astonishing accuracy of Leonardo’s work to be fully
Leonardo da Vinci’s ground-breaking studies of the human body go on display this week in the largest-ever exhibition of his anatomical work. The exhibition, which takes place almost 500 years after the artist’s death, shows 87 pages from Leonardo’s
Frogmore House and Garden will open to the public on 15, 16 and 17 May for the annual Charity Garden Open Days offering visitors the chance to discover a favourite royal retreat set in the magnificent grounds of the private Home Park of Windsor
Thanks to a collaboration between Royal Collection Publications and Walker Books, the fairy story contained within J Smith by Fougasse will be revealed in full and on human scale for the first time, 90 years after it was
Are there knights and dragons at Windsor Castle? Is the Round Tower really round? Are there any secret passages? How can you tell if The Queen is at home? A new children’s book about the world’s oldest occupied castle answers all these questions,
Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘to do’ list and his thoughts on what it takes to be a great anatomist are revealed in a remarkable sheet from one of the artist’s notebooks. Written around 1508-10 in his distinctive mirror-writing, the page of notes goes on
Three new limited-edition pieces have been added to the official range of commemorative china to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. They are a cake stand (£395), limited to 250, a lionhead bowl (£250), limited to 500 and an ornamental
From 1 May, visitors to the Palace of Holyroodhouse can join a guided walk around the historic gardens. Taking in parts of the grounds not normally open to the public, the Garden History Tour includes the ruins of the 12th-century Abbey, the site of
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