The Edwardians: Age of Elegance

Charles Baugniet, After the Ball: a Lady in a Ballgown Asleep on a Sofa (detail), ac.1860–67, Royal Collection Trust.

The Edwardians explores the opulence and glamour of the Edwardian age through the lives and tastes of two of Britain’s most fashionable royal couples – King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and King George V and Queen Mary – from their family lives and personal collecting to their glittering social circles and spectacular royal events.

More than 300 objects from the Royal Collection are on display – almost half for the first time – including works by the most renowned contemporary artists of the period, including Carl Fabergé, Frederic Leighton, Edward Burne-Jones, Rosa Bonheur, John Singer Sargent and William Morris.

The exhibition covers the period from Edward and Alexandra's wedding in 1863 up to the end of the First World War.