18 New Zealand Woman’sWeekly
THE PALACE IS TRANSFORMED
INTO AN OPULENT TIME CAPSULE
H
er Majesty looked
delighted to visit a new
exhibition about the life
of her great-great-grandmother
Queen Victoria.
The monarch toured the
exhibition, called Queen
Victoria’s Palace, before she
opened Buckingham Palace
to the public for the summer.
“This exhibition is a bit
of a departure for us because
we tend to focus on Her
Majesty the Queen and the
royal family,” explains exhibition
curator Lucy Peter, “but this
time we are doing something
historical to mark Queen
Victoria and Albert
loved playing
piano duets.
Above left:
The Queen getting
a guided tour.
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