Discover more about getting involved and becoming one of the more than 500 volunteers who help in various roles as part of the team at Blickling Estate. No Halloween can be complete without a ghost, and no, we’re not referring to everyone’s neighbourhood friend, Casper. Of course King Henry himself was an obvious choice and an absolute must for one of the projects, but which of his six wives to choose for the other two?

At one with the natural environment, you could incorporate flowers, leaves and branches in to your costume, and if you’d like to pair up, why not be enchanted by everyone’s favourite mechanical, Bottom? I chose to make a slightly different version of the hat with a more pointed crown but still with the turned up brim. The girl is wearing our red flapper dress, which looks fantastic, especially with a little jitterbug shimmy. On 21 st April 1509 the elderly King Henry VII died and his eighteen year old second son became King Henry VIII of England. Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee was a once in a lifetime opportunity for early cinema, with some 40 camera operators stationed along the procession route, ready to capture a fleeting glimpse of the Queen for eager audiences in the UK and around the world.The style is that of around 1509/10, with the Medieval influence still visible alongside the more typical Henrician Tudor style. Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee over the course of two days, starting with a lavish outdoor breakfast near Prince Albert's mausoleum at Windsor on 20 June 1887. During the early 1500’s, ladies could wear either a tied belt around their waists or the more elaborate jewelled hanging belt. I have always felt that it was very sad that this particular love story ended so sadly and bitterly.

The celebrations were a lavish, brilliant, noisy affair with processions, feasts and a 50-gun salute fired from the Tower of London. They couldn't make it work, unfortunately, but they left plenty of black and white photographs of them looking very happy together for all of us to enjoy even decades later. Having created my Young Katherine of Aragon doll first (see previous post), I wanted to match and tone the colours of Henry’s costume to those used for Katherine.Pearls had also fell off the headpiece as well as the first row of pearls pictured is completely missing. On her Golden Jubilee, The Queen and Prince Phillip toured the UK and the Commonwealth and held a concert at Buckingham Palace, followed by a spectacular firework display. Having tried tiny amounts of cotton wool and then toy stuffing, I was about to give up when I noticed a little scrap of the silk jersey on the floor that had missed the bin. If you want to pay by card for your car parking, please pop into our Estate Barn visitors reception. During prayers at the Abbey, a beam of sunlight fell upon her bowed head which observers took as a mark of divine favour.