The story of the royal children who have lived in Buckingham Palace over 250 years will be told in an exhibition next summer.

Entitled Royal Childhood, the exhibition will run throughout the summer opening of Buckingham Palace in August and September 2014.

Covering the years from the purchase of the palace by George III in 1761 to the birth of Prince George of Cambridge in 2013, the exhibition will include paintings and photographs, letters, favourite toys and clothing.

Many of the items, which have been drawn from the Royal Collection, the Royal Archives and private collections of members of the Royal Family, are going on display for the first time.

Another exhibition at Buckingham Palace – to open in April – will mark the 300th anniversary of the beginning of the Georgian era.

The first Hanoverian monarch, George I, came to the throne in 1714 and the April exhibition will explore royal patronage and taste in his reign (1714-1727) and that of George II (1727-1760).

Visitors will also be able to take part in a new tour at Windsor Castle in 2014 which will offer groups an insight into the ancient institution of the Military Knights of Windsor.

The knights were first established in 1348 as part of Edward III’s chivalric Order of the Garter. Entitled The Military Knights’ Tale, the tour will reveal the knights’ history, how they are appointed, where they live at the castle and what their duties are.

Another royal exhibition for 2014 will open in March at the Queen’s Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. This will explore changes in fashion during the Tudor and Stuart periods in the 16th and 17th centuries.

It will include paintings from the Royal Collection as well as a number of rare examples of clothing from those times.

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