A Space I Love S2 – The Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection with Matthew Storey

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

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re continuing our mini-series on treasured spaces with a trip through a place full of historic clothing, the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection.

We’ll follow Curator Matthew Storey into this hidden store, to find out how we can learn from the stories that are carried in the historic clothing we look after, and how they really do hold relevance for today.

If you would like to find out more or visit the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection, go to:

www.hrp.org.uk/about-us/conservation-and-collections/royal-ceremonial-dress-collection

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0:00.0	Hello listeners, welcome to this new mini-series on the Historic Royal Palaces podcast.
0:06.0	I'm Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator, and in this six-part series, our curator's team will be venturing into some of our favourite spaces in the palaces.
0:15.0	Now, my colleagues and I have chosen these spaces especially in the hope that we can transport you to some of our favourite moments in history.
0:22.6	So please get ready to escape to the past with us.
0:28.6	Hello, I'm at Hampton Court Palace today. It's a cold February day and it's so foggy,
0:34.6	you can actually barely see the palace walking in.
0:38.3	I'm walking through the courtyards and I'm going to a door
0:42.3	because behind this door is the office space.
1:03.0	Now again, it is really cold today.
1:06.0	Normally I'm the envy of all my colleagues at Hampton Court because it's normally very warm in this
1:12.0	office but unfortunately this week the heater is broken and we're waiting for a part so I'm
1:18.1	as cold as everyone else and on a day like this you can see why the Tudors dressed in
1:23.9	almost thick layers and all that fur because this building is not very well insulated
1:30.3	at all and sadly we can't have roaring fires today to keep us warm which they would have done in the past.
1:37.3	I'm Matthew Storrho and I'm a collections curator at historic royal palaces.
1:43.3	I've worked across all our sites but I'm very lucky now
1:47.7	because at the moment I'm looking after the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection. And the
1:53.5	reason I wanted to share this space with you is because it's where the collection
1:59.8	is housed and I didn't realize how
2:02.4	special this space was to me until January 2021. I'd spent most of 2020 on
2:12.2	furlough because of the coronavirus pandemic and then with not very much time to do it,
2:20.3	I had to pull together the Royal Style
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