Enjoy an 'eggcelllent' Easter and May Bank Holiday weekend at Kensington Palace

There are plenty of events and activites the whole family can enjoy!

The advertising creative for Enchanted Palace

Press release

Explore the palaces this Easter holiday (9-25 April) and May Bank Holiday weekend (29 April – 2 May) for a fun-filled family day out. Discover Kensington’s Enchanted Palace and hear stories of love and loss of the seven princesses.

Don’t forget Historic Royal Palaces family membership is the most cost-effective way to visit our palaces, giving your family unlimited free entry to all five palaces for a whole year! Prices start at only £56.00. Visit www.hrp.org.uk for information.

EVENTS

The secret garden
Kensington Palace
9-21 April, 11.00-16.00
Make your own enchanted animal mask and help us create a secret magical garden using craft materials and your imagination. Inspired by the Enchanted Palace and recommended for children aged 5-13 years it’s an ideal way to entertain the kids this Easter.

Afterwards explore the Enchanted Palace - a unique multisensory exhibition combining fashion, live performance, music, film and dazzling spectacle to show the palace in a magical light. Intriguing and mysterious characters lead visitors on a journey through the spellbound palace to discover its tales of love and hate, surprise and sadness, secrets and jealousy. This is a secret Kensington Palace – one you’ve never seen before.

Enchanted Palace
Kensington Palace
Daily until 3 January 2012

Kensington transformation as the Enchanted Palace - a unique multisensory exhibition combining fashion, live performance, music, film and dazzling spectacle – continues throughout 2011. From May, a series of new contemporary art works will be revealed for the third and final phase of this innovative exhibition: details to be announced shortly.

Inside the Enchanted Palace intriguing and mysterious characters lead visitors on a journey through the spellbound palace to discover its tales of love and hate, surprise and sadness, secrets and jealousy. As they travel through the magnificent State Apartments visitors will encounter a series of stunning installations featuring contemporary fashion by leading designers such as Paul Costelloe, Zandra Rhodes and Vivienne Westwood inspired by the palace’s Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection and woven into fascinating stories from the palace's history. This is a secret Kensington Palace – one you’ve never seen before!

Notes to editors

All events and materials are included in the general admission ticket price for each palace unless stated otherwise that a separate ticket is needed.

All events are subject to change, please check www.hrp.org.uk for up-to-date information on prices, opening times and details on event booking.

For further information about events and listings please contact Historic Royal Palaces Press Office on 020 3166 6166 or email press@hrp.org.uk or visit http://www.hrp.org.uk/

For images, please register on http://hrp.newsteam.co.uk/ which holds our gallery of images. You can browse and download hi-res images from this site. Usage is free for editorial.

Prices from 1 March 2011

_Palace	_Adult	_Conc	_Child	_Family
_{Historic Royal Palaces Memebrship (free admission to the palaces for a year)}	_{£43.00 (1 adult) £65.00 (2 adults)}	_n/a	_n/a	_{£56 (1 adult) £83 (2 adults)}
_{Tower of London*}	_£19.80	_£17.05	_£10.45	_£55.00
_{Hampton Court}_Palace*	_£15.95	_£13.20	_£8.00	_£43.45
_{Kensington Palace*}	_£13.75	_£12.10	_£6.90	_TBC
_{Banqueting House*}	_£5.50	_£4.40	_Free	_n/a
_{Kew Palace*}	_£5.83	_£4.95	_Free	_n/a

*All individual ticket prices include a voluntary donation

NB: ticket for Kew Palace does not include admission ticket to Kew Gardens which must also be purchased.

Historic Royal Palaces is the independent charity that looks after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, the Banqueting House, Kensington Palace and Kew Palace. We help everyone explore the story of how monarchs and people have shaped society, in some of the greatest palaces ever built.

We receive no funding from the Government or the Crown, so we depend on the support of our visitors, members, donors, volunteers and sponsors.

These palaces are owned by The Queen on behalf of the nation, and we manage them for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

We believe in four principles. Guardianship: giving these palaces a future as long and valuable as their past. Discovery: encouraging people to make links with their own lives and today’s world. Showmanship: doing everything with panache. Independence: having our own point of view and finding new ways to do our work. http://www.hrp.org.uk/ registered charity number 1068852 -ends-

Enjoy an 'eggcelllent' Easter and May Bank Holiday weekend at Kensington Palace

Enjoy an 'eggcelllent' Easter and May Bank Holiday weekend at Kensington Palace

There are plenty of events and activites the whole family can enjoy!

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