History and art tend to be a bit stuffy; moustached men in frock coats and women with giant hair. Blowing a dark wind through your expectations of art and history there is an astounding exhibition at London's Kensington Palace.
The Enchanted Palace exhibition, which opened at the end of March, has been set up while renovations are being made to the palace. Far from turning it into a building site, the palace in now a place of dark fairy tales, abandoned children and sinister shadows.
Crafty art, by Wild Works and several designers and artists (Vivienne Westwood, William Tempest, Stephen Jones, Boudicca, Aminaka Wilmont and Echo Morgan, being among them) help to tell a dark and magical tale of seven princesses and the shadowy life of royalty.
There are artworks, armies of toy soldiers, origami clouds and all manner of handmade wonders. There's even a handknitted throne.
It's fascinating, disturbing, magical and utterly spellbinding. I fell in love with it.
Go before they turn it back into humdrum history.
