Features
- Spacious and links well to the North Drawing Room
- Excellent views of the garden
- Intimate, light and pretty room
Best for…
This exquisitely designed room lends itself to intimate dinners and receptions and may be combined with a reception in the Sunken Garden.
A little history of the space…
The Duke and Duchess of Teck were allocated the apartments in 1867. They were formerly occupied by the Duke and Duchess of Kent and the young Princess Victoria.
Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, was the daughter of George III’s son Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. Her husband was Prince Franz of Teck, the only son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg. The Prince took a strong personal interest in the decoration of the couples’ apartments at Kensington Palace.
The Teck Saloon has been restored after a surviving photograph of the room dating from around 1870. The Tecks had four children, all of whom were born at Kensington Palace. Their first, Victoria Mary, born on 26 May 1867, later married George, Prince of Wales and became Queen Mary on her husband’s accession in 1910.
