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Book SynopsisTrade Review“This beautiful, easy to read, volume of history is a book anyone would love to own” —Wendy Lipke,
Queensland Reviewers Collective“
Kensington Palace gathers a sumptuous array of photographs, sketches and oil paintings of the 300-year old stately building complex.” — Ian Thomson,
Evening Standard“This compelling upstairs-downstairs history of the 'home for homeless royals' is lavishly illustrated with architectural drawings, state beds, artworks from the Royal Collection, and a near-psychedelic (for 1749) depiction of fireworks over the Thames at Whitehall.” —
Apollo, Off the Shelf
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Kensington Palace: Art, Architecture and Society is, as one would expect from a Yale University publication, an erudite account of the history and royal residents who have lived there” – Robert Golden,
Majesty“Kensington Palace: Art, Architecture and Society, [. . .] is the first modern account of this remarkable, relatively little-known building. Generously produced, with chapters by Historic Royal Palaces curators, it is an intellectual counterpart to the opening up of the palace to its gardens in 2012” —
Country Life“This handsome volume, written by curators (both past and present) of Historic Royal Palaces…helps to refurnish and repopulate the rooms while offering a comprehensive account of the palace and its residents.”—Jonny Yarker,
The Burlington Magazine
