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The Brighton Pavilion and the Dress for Excess Exhibit, Part 5
In this fifth part of our journey around the Royal Pavilion , Brighton, George IVs pleasure palace, which would no doubt have been an object of scorn for Jane Austen , as averse to him as she most...
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The Brighton Pavilion and the Dress for Excess Exhibition, Part Six
Today we return to our tour of the Brighton Pavillion, the magnificent seaside palace which was the darling child of Jane Austen’s most detested Prince Regent. She would most certainly have not...
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The Brighton Pavilion and the Dress for Excess Exhibition, Part Seven.
Now, in the seventh part to this series-which you may be glad to hear is nearing its end!- we leave the ground floor to go upstairs to the bedrooms on the first floor of the Pavilion, George IV’s...
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The Brighton Pavilion and the Dress for Excess Exhibition, Part Eight
In our last post in this series,we travelled up the stairs in the Gallery. This week we discover where those wonderfully pink stairs and their faked bamboo stair rail led…to the Gallery on the Chamber...
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The Brighton Pavilion and the Dress for Excess Exhibit: Part Nine, The King’s...
Today we visit the last of the rooms in George IV’s seaside folly, The Kings Private Apartments of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton. His set of private apartments were originally to be found on the...
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George IV’s clothes- Supersize Me
Brighton Pavilion, George IV’s seaside folly, has a wonderful new exhibit space, The Prince Regent Gallery which will be used to house exhibits relating to the Prince’s rather extravagant life and...
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Charlotte, The Forgotten Princess: A New Exhibition on Princess Charlotte to...
The Brighton Museum Press Office has just announced that a new exhibition on the short life of Princes Charlotte, is to be held in the sumptuous surroundings of her father’s seaside pleasure...
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George IVs Coronation, Part One: George’s Coronation Gown
The ferocious winter storm and the power cuts attendant upon it have meant that my little series on some of the costumes worn at George IV’s Coronation has been slightly delayed. But, now that power...
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George IV’s Coronation: The Herb-Woman’s Attendant’s Costume
George IV’s coronation included some details of ceremonial which were never repeated by any subsequent coronation. The Kings Herb-woman was one such element. This was a post that had first been created...
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George IV’s Coronation: The Costume of the Barons of the Cinque Ports.
This is the last post in my series on the costumes worn at the coronation of George IV in 1821, and the final post in the Dress for Excess exhibition series, and we are going to take a look at teh...
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