Kensington Palace & Home for the week!

This morning we went to Kensington Palace to the Dress Codes exhibition.
Wills & Kate and the kids were, unfortunately, not available to take tea 🫖 but Kate made a reservation for us at her favourite place: The Veranda at The Goring Hotel tomorrow! 😉

You can see from the pictures that we saw Elizabeth and Margaret’s’ matching dresses they wore after VE day was announced. We saw dresses from Princess Diana as well as Princess Margaret and Queen Victoria. Apparently Old Victoria was a trend setter! Who’d have thought Black was the 1880’s ‘in thing’ ✊🏻 It was okay but not patch on the Diana dresses’ 👗 exhibition that I saw a few years back. We also did the tour of the rest of the Palace as well, including Diana’s Sunken Garden 🪴 We also dropped into Cafe Diana across the road from the Palace. Diana used to pop in there occasionally and the walls are full of beautiful photographs of her, one being signed by her.

After that we were finally able to unpack in our new home for the week in Battersea Park. It is a really lovely apartment. It is owned by an interior designer and he has done a beautiful job. The only downside is another three levels of stairs to climb! There were three levels of stairs last night and bringing luggage down this morning was so exhausting 😩 I’ve gotta tell you, the shine has gone off carrying heavy bags up and down stairwells in hotels, apartments and Tube Stations. My back is really telling me not to do it any more! It will be nice to just settle in one place for a week.Read more