The Queen visits the Garden Museum

The Queen has visited the Garden Museum’s British Flowers Week latest exhibition, which features six immersive floral installations celebrating local, seasonal, British-cut flowers. 

The Garden Museum, of which The King is Patron, explores and celebrates the art, history and design of British gardens and their place in today’s culture. 

During the visit, The Queen also viewed Cecil Beaton’s Garden Party, an exhibition featuring photographs, paintings, drawings, costume and set design which explores the role flowers played in developing Cecil Beaton’s creative practice. Included in the display are portraits of Queen Elizabeth II (then Princess Elizabeth), the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret. 

In the Clore Learning Space of the Museum, The Queen joined school children from Evelyn Grace Academy and Platanos College, learning about the biology of the tea plant and making herbal tea bags as part of the museum’s learning programme, with Plant Science Educator, Samia Qureshi. 

Her Majesty even made her own mint tea bag!