Queen Camilla views garden exhibition that explores 'ideas about sexuality and relationships'

It focuses on four women and the green spaces they curated, Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell, Vita Sackville-West, and Lady Ottoline Morrell.

For each of the women, their gardens became places of sanctuary through various crises.

The exhibition aims to demonstrate how green spaces became places where “ideas about creativity and domesticity, nature, sexuality and relationships could be uprooted and redefined”.

It includes photographs, paintings, textiles, garden tools, manuscripts and correspondence, much of which has never been made public, to tell the interweaving stories of the four women.

The manuscript of A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf's 1929 essay, is among the items on display.

She was a regular visitor to Vita Sackville-West's colour-themed garden “rooms”.

​Sackville-West was Woolf's lover in the 1920s.

The Queen, an avid reader, was greeted on arrival by Alan Titchmarsh, the president of the Garden Museum.

She also met Shane Connolly, the florist who designed the arrangements for the Coronation last May.

Curators Dr Claudia Tobin and Emma House showed the Queen around the exhibition.

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The Queen also watched a “clay for dementia” session, part of the museum’s learning programme.

Free sessions are offered to those with dementia and their carers, and Camilla met volunteers who support the workshops.

The 76-year-old last visited the Garden Museum in December 2023 when she opened Winter Flowers Week.

King Charles, 75, has been a patron of the museum since December 2021.