On 20 April, King Charles and Queen Camilla<\/a> will attend Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style<\/a>, an exhibition at the King\u2019s Gallery, the largest-ever display of the late Queen\u2019s clothes ever mounted. The exhibition, which opened last week, features<\/a> 200 pieces from Her Late Majesty\u2019s wardrobe, ranging from tartan skirts and statement-making hats to her coronation and wedding gowns.<\/p>\n The following day, King Charles will join Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the British Museum, where they will be shown the final plans for a memorial to Queen Elizabeth II. Set to be built in St James\u2019 Park, the tribute will include a bridge across the St James\u2019 Park lake, with a design inspired by Queen Elizabeth\u2019s wedding tiara<\/a>. A new gate will honour her husband. Prince Philip, and a new \u2018figurative sculpture\u2019 will also be stationed next to The Mall<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Duchess of Edinburgh is said to have enjoyed a particularly warm relationship with her mother-in-law, the late Queen, whom she often joined at Royal Ascot and on other royal engagements<\/p>\n Max Mumby\/Indigo\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Royal watchers were thrilled to see the Duchess’s return to duty. \u2018It’s so lovely to see the Duchess.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3163,156,111,43,139,69,16196],"class_list":["post-381847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-duchess-of-edinburgh","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Image](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1316438971.jpeg\"\/)
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