The Royal History of the Royal School of Needlework
The story of the royal connections of the Royal School of Needlework and especially its role in all the British coronations of the 20th century.
THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Dr Susan Kay-Williams
Chief Executive of the Royal School of Needlework, based at Hampton Court Palace. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Chartered Institute of Marketing and in 2015 was made a Fellow of the Society of Dyers and Colourists in recognition of her work on the history of dyes. Susan has a longstanding interest in textiles, especially colour, and published her first book, The Story of Colour in Textiles (Bloomsbury) in 2013. She has extensive lecturing experience and has been invited to lecture in the USA, Canada, China, Japan and Taiwan as well as for the V&A and across the UK.
OTHER EVENTS
The story of the secret plans to evacuate precious collections in a race against time in the summer of 1939