The death of Queen Victoria in 1901 and the succession to the throne of her son Edward marked the beginning of the new century and the end of the long and prosperous Victorian era. Unlike his mother, King Edward VII was a sovereign who did not shy away from society and public life. A great lover of travel, the monarch was a leader of a fashionable elite and during the Edwardian era British society life was a period of opulence and glamour whose most important followers were the sovereign himself and his wife Queen Alexandra, as well as King George V and Queen Mary. The exhibition displays more than 300 objects from the Royal Collection, 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, Laurits Tuxen, John Singer Sargent and William Morris.
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