In a world first, we welcomed BazaarUK to the historic The Castle & Gardens of Mey in Caithness, Scotland, to photograph Jourdan Dunn for the magazine’s ‘Best of British’ cover.

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📷 Photography by Richard Phibbs

Our textiles graduate Graeme Bone, who runs his own highlandwear business, will be among many talented craftspeople presenting at the Craftworks exhibition at Shoreditch Town Hall in East London from May 15-17. For info, go to craftworks.show

The King's Foundation's Sarah Robinson will be among panelists at an in-person discussion in London on Wednesday with architects with experience of retrofit projects. To book your place at Retrofit Meets: Creating Community Hubs, go to tinyurl.com/RetrofitPanel

Raymond Blanc's Royal Kitchen Gardens is at Highgrove Gardens tomorrow (Sunday).

Tune in at 11.30am on ITV1 to see Raymond meeting our chef Luke and beekeeper Steve to discuss kitchen garden produce and how it is prepared for Orchard Room restaurant guests and Highgrove products.

Applications remain open until next week (Wednesday 15 May) for The King's Foundation's and CHANEL's Métiers d'Art Fellowship, in partnership with le19M, focusing on hatmaking and millinery.

To learn more, and to apply, go to kings-foundation.org/education/high…

Today marks one year since the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

As our Royal Founding President, His Majesty kindly extended invitations to a number of our students and alumni who attended the historic service at Westminster Abbey.

On this day five years ago, the then Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay, attended the official opening of luxury accommodation at The Granary Lodge at The Castle & Gardens of Mey, which has welcomed thousands of visitors from six continents.

To book your stay, go to castleofmey.org.uk

👩‍🌾 This week marks National Gardening Week 2024 by The RHS

🌳 At our gardens across the UK, at The Castle & Gardens of Mey, Highgrove Gardens, and Dumfries House, we implement sustainable, organic practices and promote the health and wellbeing benefits of spending time in greenspace.

Exciting news! 🌷

The @highgrovegarden shop will be exhibiting at The RHS Chelsea 2024, from Monday 20th to Saturday 25th May.

All proceeds will support the work of The King’s Foundation.

A sneak peek of what to expect, from produce and willow sculptures to live demos ⤵️

Earlier this month, we held an open day at our Highgrove Gardens education centres.

Members of the public were invited to tour our craft workshops and hear more about the training programmes available.

If you couldn’t make it along, find out more via tinyurl.com/TrainingAtHG

On #WorldHeritageDay , The King's Foundation is proud to celebrate our historic sites Dumfries House, The Castle & Gardens of Mey, Highgrove Gardens, and The Garrison Chapel, where we deliver education programmes in traditional building skills to help preserve historic buildings.

Students of The King's Foundation School of Traditional Arts' Open Programme recently undertook icon-painting, pictured here applying gold leaf to the background and transferring the design onto their gesso panel.

To about the Open Programme, go to kings-foundation.org/school-of-trad…

The The King's Foundation has loaned to Tate the portrait of the Countess Margaret, wife to Patrick 6th Earl of Dumfries for the exhibition Now You See Us (opens May 16).

The work, by Anne Forbes, usually hangs in the Family Parlour at Dumfries House.

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Raymond Blanc's Royal Kitchen Gardens is at The Castle & Gardens of Mey in this weekend's episode. Tune in at 11.30am on ITV1 on Sunday morning to see Raymond meeting head gardener Chris Parkinson to discuss produce from the kitchen garden and the work on the Caithness estate.

Architecture students at Oxford Brookes University will be mentored by our associate director Sarah Robinson as part of a scheme by Royal Institute of British Architects. Sarah has overseen projects in recent years including the restoration of Braemar Castle on Royal Deeside.

📸 Sarah Robinson, by Stefan Jakubowski.

An exhibition promoting retrofitting of buildings and involving The King's Foundation is now running at Building Centre in London until the end of August.

Retrofit 24: The Reuse Agenda for Our Commercial, Cultural and Civic Buildings is open now.

📸 Photo by Olga Kott

We are proud to announce that The King’s Foundation and The Akoje Residency have launched a new collaboration to enable up-and-coming African, Caribbean and diaspora artists to benefit from art residencies and training at Dumfries House.

Discover the latest collaboration between Highgrove Gardens and Burberry - beautiful limited-edition scarves featuring intricate designs reminiscent of the wildflower meadow and the delphiniums, a beloved bloom of King Charles III, at Highgrove. Shop now: bit.ly/3PwXFfK

Tutor and alumnus Tom Bree recently taught School of Traditional Arts students marquetry techniques using natural wood veneers.

The practice of sacred and traditional geometry is an integral part of our two-year MA programme.

To learn more, go to kings-foundation.org/school-of-trad…

The thoughts and best wishes of everyone here at The King's Foundation are with Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales and The Royal Family at this time.