Enchanted is the term for Diana's royal home
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April 10, 2010, Saturday
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BRITISH fashion designers, including Dame Vivienne Westwood and William Tempest, have transformed Princess Diana's former home into an "Enchanted Palace."
The Kensington Palace exhibition, which will run for two years, explores the lives of seven princesses who lived at the estate ¨? combining storytelling through live theater, haunting whispers and lighting tricks.
In addition to Westwood and Tempest, designers Boudicca and Aminaka Wilmont, illustrator Echo Morgan and milliner Stephen Jones were commissioned to revamp more than a dozen rooms in the 405-year-old state apartments, while 12 million pounds (US$18 million) of major works are carried out in other areas of the estate.
Curators asked the designers to conceive a new dress for each princess, including Mary, Anne, Caroline, Charlotte and Victoria, while another two original dresses belonging to Margaret and Diana, Princess of Wales, are displayed in a new light.
Westwood created a dress "for a rebellious princess," inspired by King George IV's daughter Princess Charlotte, whose death in 1817 had such an impact on Londoners that supplies of black cloth in the city ran out.
Each room has its own theme, including tragic stories of a young princess betrothed to a man much older; the horror of bearing a stillborn child and that of losing a friend forever which are brought to life by actors from Cornish-based theater company WildWorks.
Visitors are handed maps to help them work their way around the warren-like installation, and asked to undertake a challenge to identify the room of each princess.
The upgrade is due for completion by 2012, in time for the Queen's 60th Jubilee and the London Olympic Games. The Enchanted Palace, now open, will run until 2012.
The Kensington Palace exhibition, which will run for two years, explores the lives of seven princesses who lived at the estate ¨? combining storytelling through live theater, haunting whispers and lighting tricks.
In addition to Westwood and Tempest, designers Boudicca and Aminaka Wilmont, illustrator Echo Morgan and milliner Stephen Jones were commissioned to revamp more than a dozen rooms in the 405-year-old state apartments, while 12 million pounds (US$18 million) of major works are carried out in other areas of the estate.
Curators asked the designers to conceive a new dress for each princess, including Mary, Anne, Caroline, Charlotte and Victoria, while another two original dresses belonging to Margaret and Diana, Princess of Wales, are displayed in a new light.
Westwood created a dress "for a rebellious princess," inspired by King George IV's daughter Princess Charlotte, whose death in 1817 had such an impact on Londoners that supplies of black cloth in the city ran out.
Each room has its own theme, including tragic stories of a young princess betrothed to a man much older; the horror of bearing a stillborn child and that of losing a friend forever which are brought to life by actors from Cornish-based theater company WildWorks.
Visitors are handed maps to help them work their way around the warren-like installation, and asked to undertake a challenge to identify the room of each princess.
The upgrade is due for completion by 2012, in time for the Queen's 60th Jubilee and the London Olympic Games. The Enchanted Palace, now open, will run until 2012.
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