Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 8th April 2027

Time: Doors open 7pm Lecture 7.30-9pm

Venue: Hunnyhill Room Riverside Centre, The Quay, Newport, PO30 2QR

Description: Head of one of the largest and most important collections of decorative art in the world, Caroline De Guitaut is an art historian and curator with more than thirty years experience. Responsible for the curatorial and conservation departments of His Majesty’s Royal Collection, her work and experience encompasses the needs of arms, armour, ceramics, clocks, fashion, furniture, metalwork, tapestries, textiles and jewellery, as well as the Crown Jewels. She will deliver a lecture on royal clothes and fashion explaining the extraordinary and often poorly understood elements that define the style of a female monarch, including the unusual requirements and very special sort of dress code that royal queens adhere to.

Price: Talks free to Associate branch members, National HA members and Students, visitors £3.

Email: jacobscme@gmail.com

Lecturer: Caroline De Guitaut, Surveyor of the King’s Works of Art

Region: South-East England

Branch: Isle of Wight