Enchanted Palace

100% agree with Holly and Fran.

A total waste of time and money.

This was absolutely terrible, a total waste of time.

It was like going to see a really bad school project.

As everyone else has said it's just a money making exercise until the renovations are complete.

Save your money, do yourself and favour and stay away.

Artistically the exhibit was fantastic especially if one lets go of any preconceived ideas and just goes with the exhibit. Historically while not wholly true or realistic, was based on most facts added with a sense of the fantastical to draw in crowds. Conceptually very clever seems to have no pattern but if one follows the rooms and pays attention there is a thread that links them all. Most stand out is the Princess Charlotte exhibit and the final room with all of the princesses. While obviously designed to attract a multitude of ages, which slightly detracts from the whole, the exhibit is a very unique experience once jadedness and preconceptions are left behind. All of the workers I talked with were extremely knowledgeable and in particular the one in the Charlotte exhibit extremely passionate about the history. Highly recommend this.

I was underwhelmed by this exhibition. The decoration was poor, the narrative weak and the overall theme (seven princesses) disjointed. The interiors came across as sub-par Selfridges window displays. My overall impression was that this is a poorly disguised revenue generating exercise while renovations take place.

I thought the guides ('Explainers') were outstanding in their knowledge and evident love of the palace and its history, particularly Patrick, who kept us enthralled for 20 minutes!
This is history presented in a 'modern' way, but I thought it fun, and although some of the installations in the rooms don't work (the 4-5 mattresses on Princess Victoria's bed), overall a good, lively experience.

We have been to this exhibition when they had a late night opening and we were unimpressed by it. It seemed like an attempt to make money while they are doing restauration works on the palace.
Would only recommend to see when its fully open.

highly disappointed with this exhibition - i was hoping for the magic and enchantment promised on the website....i like the idea (hence the reason i went) but i would hardly call it multisensory - i saw 1 person 'in character' and the other 'explainers' were just like talking guidebooks - im not knocking their level of knowledge, but i was expecting more of a storytelling,more weirdness, more people in character and generally more magic! although the installations were ok but the palace has hardly been transformed....it wasnt worth the £12.50 entrance fee and did not live up to the advertising!
id give this one a miss if i were you!

Extortionately priced. Clearly a filler whilst they renovate the rest of the palace. I feel cheated.

This exhibition is a waste of both time and money. It is nothing more than a glorified A-level art project.

This exhibition could have been so much better. The names of seven princesses are written in seven of the dimly lit rooms. The task is to find the names, and write them on the back page of the gallery guide (entitled: Dance Card). Installations connect in some way to the princess in the room, and you can then ask the staff about her life, or about the history of the time. There are a few fashion outfits: not modelled by actors, but by dress makers' dummies, in glass cases.Was there a performance aspect to the show? A few actors wandered around in grey monastic type habits, with little torches on their headbands. I asked one of these actors about the history and period of Mary, but he said "I know nothing- I am just a detector. I will take you to an explainer". This grey monk, detecting confusion, I suppose, took me literally by the hand, with his rubber gloved hand, to a gallery guide pinny-wearing member of staff, who was able to tell me all about the period of William and Mary, plus extra bits I hadn't counted on. The explainers, including this one, were valiant. The monks were not very evident, and seemed to be chatting a bit amongst themselves. Incidentally, I found the lighting tough on my eyes, and somewhat frustrating, especially at the end, in the last gallery, the final touch, where the summing up of the princesses, on metal plaques under illuminated slides, was marred by a light system that turned the lights out as soon as you stood in front of them! This show looks intriguing in the photos, but the actual physical layout of the stately apartments is not "overridden" sufficiently to make the whole experience "magical" or coherent/ The weirdness was a good idea, but why have weird actors that don't connect with the explanations nor explainers, when actors in period costumes, using period language on topics of the day have been weird enough for us, and possibly interesting and informative as well?