Summer Abroad: Enchanted Palace Exhibit at Kensington Palace

Overall, this exhibit was really silly. Kensington Palace right now has this Enchanted Palace Exhibit about the seven princesses of Kensington Palace going on. I wanted to see the palace so I went, and I heard that a lot of designers designed clothes/hats for the exhibit, which they did, but it was still really weird. My friend bought me a ticket but I think it was relatively expensive.

The second floor of the palace is decorated so each room is themed after one of the princesses who lived there: Mary II, Anne, Charlotte, Caroline, Victoria, Margaret, and Diana. Each of the princesses has a formal gown either worn by them or designed to represent them on display. The rooms are decorated not in the style that they normally are when the royal family is residing there, but more like a theme park. There was a room filled completely with hats that was kind of neat.

Kind of like the Ben Franklin House: corny tour, cool building.

The part of the tour I liked most was the Victoria area because her room's were where she actually resided (Diana and Margaret lived in the Clock Courts on the other side of the palace so their rooms weren't really where they lived). I saw the real staircase that Victoria walked down when she became Queen and learned that the film The Young Victoria was actually filmed at Ham's House, not Kensington Palace. There was an impressive painting of Victoria's wedding to Albert in her bedroom and her actual bed, dressing table and mirror.