Next door to Kew Palace, the Georgian royal kitchen remains miraculously preserved, 200 years after it was last used.
The Royal Kitchens evoke life on the 6th February 1789, when George III was given back his knife and fork, after his first episode of ‘madness’.
The visitor’s first experience will be the
little kitchen garden to the rear, with neat vegetable beds laid out between gravel paths, and fruit trees climbing the walls. In fact, the real kitchen gardens were enormous and stood alongside the Kew Road, but this gives a flavour of what the Georgian kitchen gardens were like.
Once inside, you’ll see the four preparation rooms where the bread was baked, the fish and meat stored, vegetables washed, and the lead-lined sink where the scullery boys would spend hours scouring pots and pans with sand and soap.
