The Ps come to visit

Coming home, after spending nearly four weeks in the US, we had only a couple of days to prepare for a visit from my dad and Mark`s mum.  Ploughing through four weeks worth of housework, washing and ironing over the weekend was not much fun but we got everything sorted.

We all went down to Hvedholm Slot for the weekend to celebrate birthdays and our fifteenth wedding anniversary.




The weather was glorious and we had a lovely weekend.  We spent some time in Faaborg wandering around the harbour and then went out to Valdemar Slot where, unfortunately, a private function was taking place so we couldn´t look round.



The following day we went out to Egeskov Slot.






Mark´s mother and I went to look at a costume exhibition at the castle.  It was very interesting.









The following dress was originally owned by Marie Antoinette.  It was never completed, possibly because of the death of Louis XV when full court mourning would have been observed and therefore colourful stitching would have been inappropriate.  It may also have been the case that Marie Antoinette did not like the gown.  It was originally given to a lady´s maid.  It was later bought in a sale by Baroness Christina Maria Alstromer, nee Silfverschiold who gave the dress to a Mistress Flech.  Mistress Flech´s daughter sold part of the gown to Camilla Sophie of Harmens who married Baron Frantz Preben Bille Brahe of Egeskov in 1850.





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