Princesses’ bedrooms

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Princesses’ bedrooms

Unique view into the princesses' bedrooms

Where you can find it? First and second floors, Kew Palace

Princess Elizabeth

Why see them?

Princess Elizabeth’s bedroom is on the first floor.

It has been restored, including her flamboyant Grecian couch bed.

On the second floor you can see the unrestored bedrooms of Princess Augusta and Princess Amelia. 

This provides a unique view into the domestic rooms of the 18th century princesses, showing both how they might have looked and in the 2nd floor rooms, the clues which prompted the refurbishment.  

These include traces of the original verditer wallpaper, a Gothic fireplace acquired at her request for Princess Amelia and early 19th century paint finishes.

They said it...

Princess Elizabeth complained that the house was damp and unfit to house her mother during her final illness.  Writing to her eldest brother, the princess described Kew Palace with sarcasm as “this beautiful chateau”, so although the furnishings were certainly elegant, the house as a royal residence was not up to the usual royal standards. 

Horace Walpole suggested that the princesses were so cramped in their bedrooms they were forced to hang their dresses on the backs of their bedroom doors.  There is no evidence of this!


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