A tiny fragment of wallpaper

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A tiny fragment of wallpaper

A room fit for a princess

Buildings Surveyor Jo Thwaites gives an exclusive tour of one of the most intriguing spaces at Kew Palace.

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Princess Amelia's bedroom, Kew Palace

If you go over to the window that looks out over the back garden, you’ll see there are some shutters that are weathered and broken down by the sun. The shutters hide a fragment of the room’s original wallpaper - a very special, exotic piece of wall covering with a flocked Greek key pattern on it. It was this little fragment that we used as a source to re-create another room downstairs. The 1804 tax stamp on the back of the fragment tells us that the wallpaper decorated Princess Amelia’s room when she came to Kew to visit her father, George III. He was being looked after at Kew because he was thought to be mad.

A fragment of wallpaper

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