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Historic Royal Palaces
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Six palaces, one charity
and a whole lot of history. 🏰
🎉 Happy New Year from Historic Royal Palaces 🏰
January 1, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Our 2025 Wrapped 🎁

🌺 The Tower Remembers at the Tower of London
👗 Dress Codes at Kensington Palace
📚 The launch of our Inspiring History Teaching Awards
🏛️ Reopening of the The Banqueting House following conservation work
🍯 Disney Winnie the Pooh Hunny Hunt at Hillsborough Castle © Disney
December 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
That Boxing Day feeling 😴 How are we all doing, anyone fancy a mince pie? 🎄

📍 Base Court, Hampton Court Palace
December 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Merry Christmas from everyone at Historic Royal Palaces 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🥁 It is time to announce the winner of the Historic Royal Palaces #PalacePhoto competition... 📸

🏆 Over to our esteemed judge Lucy Worlsey to choose the winning photo... Congratulations to @borntotravel1981 with a photo of Lady Alice's Temple at Hampton Court Palace
December 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🏆 It's time to judge the #PalacePhoto of the year competition with our esteemed judge @lucy_worsley 🎊

👏 Congratulations to our shortlist: @mymyinthewild @speddingh_53178 @borntotravel1981 @lady_loxtons_tudoradventures @nicolas.bicorne.photos @TheTravelingPierogi
December 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
How to end a feast the Tudor way: enter the void 🍖

Following a feast in the great hall of a palace, there would be a private banquet of sugary treats for the monarch and their special guests to indulge in. This was called 'the void’. 1/3
December 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
There’s history around every corner at our palaces and we love seeing how you capture it 📸 Every year we crown the winner of the #PalacePhoto Competition 🏆

Our esteemed judge, Lucy Worsley, will be making her choice soon, so get your entries in now! Just tag us or use the hashtag #PalacePhoto 🏰
December 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Caption this:

We'll go first 👉 POV: On our way to sleigh this Christmas 🎄 ❄️
December 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
#Onthisday in 1818 Queen Charlotte died at Kew Palace 🏰

Charlotte died surrounded by her daughters Augusta and Mary, the Prince Regent and the Duke of York 🕯️ Her coffin lay in the dining room at Kew, lit by six candles in large silver candlesticks, before being taken to Windsor Castle.
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We will remember them.

📍 The Tower Remembers, Tower of London.
#RemembranceDay
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The Tower of London’s moat has protected the fortress for hundreds of years ⛓️ During the Second World War, it helped protect the city from the sky; with a giant hydrogen-filled barrage balloon 🎈

📸 1939: Balloon over the Tower (ACME / Historic Royal Palaces) 🧵👇 (1/5)
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Did you know our Yeoman Warders live at the Tower of London? 🏰

When the visitors go home, it’s like a unique village inside our fortress’ walls - the Yeoman Warders even have their own pub called The Keys! 🗝️
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM