A Space I Love - Lucy Worsley and The King's Stairs

Historic Royal Palaces Podcast

Historic Royal Palaces

London, Palace, Tower, Historic, Conservation, Royal, Lecture, Learning, Kensington, Hampton, Kew, Banqueting, History, Court, Of, House, Palaces

4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this new six-part mini-series, we’ll be exploring a selection of treasured spaces in our palaces with the people who know them best, our curators.

Some spaces will be grand and some modest, some aren’t even open to the public. But each space has been personally chosen by our resident experts to reveal how immersing ourselves in the past can connect us to the present.

In this first episode we’ll follow Chief Curator Lucy Worsley, into the pomp of Kensington Palace, to a staircase that has a lot more to reveal about the Georgian court than you would think.

To find out more about the King’s stairs go to hrp.org.uk/kensington-palace/whats-on/the-kings-staircase

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello listeners. Welcome to this new mini-series on the Historic Royal Palace's podcast.
0:06.0	I'm Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator. And in this six-part series, our curator's team are going to be venturing into some of our favourite spaces in the Palace.
0:18.0	We've chosen these spaces, me and my colleagues, because they're spaces that we
0:23.8	connect with personally. These places are really special to us. We're going to be taking
0:30.1	you on a gentle stroll through various rooms, a cottage even, all sorts of different environments in the hope that we can
0:39.3	transport you back to some of our favourite moments in history.
0:44.3	And here's a bonus. Some of the spots we've chosen are behind closed doors.
0:48.3	They're not available to visitors. I hope you're going to enjoy that.
0:52.3	This little series, it's going to be reflective.
0:56.6	It's going to be contemplative. Perhaps you'll even find it a little bit moving. So please
1:04.3	get ready to escape to the past with us.
1:15.6	I'm at Kensington Palace today. It's July.
1:16.6	There's a heat wave outside and you can tell it's a little warm even though this room is normally freezing cold.
1:24.6	I'm in this giant, huge, echoing, vast, dark space called
1:30.3	the King's Grand Staircase. I'm Lucy Worsley. I'm the chief curator at the Independent
1:37.3	Charity, historic Royal Palaces, and I'd like to show you round.
1:42.3	When people used to come here in the 18th century,
1:44.6	there were quite a lot of comments actually about the smell,
1:47.2	the sweaty smell of all the courtiers,
1:50.6	who were less appropriately dressed for the occasion than I am.
1:55.4	This room is the King's Grand staircase, I say room.
1:59.2	It's a staircase. It's massive, it's huge.
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