georgiea
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Just read in the Royalist that Diana, Princess of Wales' home is now holding a play for 100 people to attend.
Just read in the Royalist that Diana, Princess of Wales' home is now holding a play for 100 people to attend.
Depends on what you understand to be Diana's home. The play will be shown at the State Apartments of Kensington Palace - these are open to the public for visiting and are rented out of functions, dinners, charity or corporate events anyway. So it's in the public part of Kensington Place and I doubt Diana ever went there. Maybe once to see them but that was that, surely. Who wants to visit the museum next door more than once if it just consists of state Apartments?
I wonder what one had to do to get such an exclusive ticket? I love the idea of seeing the"behind the scenes" State Apartments where so much history has taken place.
Why wasn't St James Palace offered to Charles and Diana as their London residence instead of Kensington Palace?
Why wasn't St James Palace offered to Charles and Diana as their London residence instead of Kensington Palace?
Wasn't it because the Queen Mum was resident there already ?
The Queen Mum lived at Clarence House and I am guessing St. James Palace was more of an office space rather than a residence like it was after the separation/divorce...
If you take a look here, you can see that they are open to the public:
Historic Royal Palaces > Home > Kensington Palace
Her's what I found about Diana's apartments:
Today, Kensington continues its long history as a residence for members of the Royal Family. Princesses still live around Princesses’ Court.
The best known resident in recent years was Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-97) who occupied apartments in the north-west part of the palace from 1981 to 1997.
Although her private apartments are not open to the public, the palace displays a selection of her dresses in the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection.
End of quote.
I just found in the leaflet that they opened up Princess Margret's old apartment Nr. 1A Kensington Palace to the public, though only on guided tours. Seems they kept the rooms pretty much in the same style as when the princess lived there. Well, at least her kitchen...
I just fount this discussion at another board where they have floor plans and some pics which help identify Diana's apartments at Kensington Palace at Google Earth: Royal Apartment
Seems the apartments were really facing the North with only some windows into a courtyard to the South - no wonder Charles was so happy to have Highgrove.
Thank you, I have often wondered that maybe a more grander setting would have appealed to Diana a bit more..since she came from a grand home herself.
Very interesting article about the play. I don't think that Diana would have cared where in London she lived, as long as it was central. She had no time for Balmoral or Highgrove apparently.
Sorry I've not posted more on the site since I joined, I have spent hours and hours perusing the Royal Jewel thread! Amazing.
Kensington Palace is a beautiful residence I don't see why Charles and Diana wouldn't want to live there.
It was too dark?
How many bedrooms do you think her apartments had; 5 perhaps?
Yes, the light wasn't really good. I think most of the apartment was facing north but I might be wrong.
That I really don't know. What's for sure is that they had enough to make separate rooms when they didn't get along anymore .