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Perth Now
30-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Catherine, Princess of Wales curates museum display
Catherine, Princess of Wales has personally curated a new museum display. The 43-year-old princess - who is the Royal Patron of the V+A - visited the new V+A East Storehouse in London last month and was given a behind-the-scenes tour by the facility's curatorial team to find out more about why objects are collected and how they are cared for and displayed. She then got to work with staff to select items from the museum's collections for her own "mini display" called Makers and Creators, which will be exhibited until early next year. Among the items chosen by the princess was a watercolour painting by Peter Rabbit creator Beatrix Potter - a distant relative of Catherine through her great-great-great uncle - and a childhood photograph album belonging to the author's father, Rupert Potter. The display also includes a costume from The Royal Ballet's 1960 production of The Sleeping Beauty, which was worn by Diana Vere and designed bty Oliver Messel, a mid-20th century sculpture of hands by Clemence Dane, and George Henry Boughton's oil painting titled A Woman Holding a Mirror and a Rose. Finally, Catherine also selected a hand-quilted bedcover made in Wales in the 1830s, a 15th-century earthenware tile, a Qing dynasty porcelain vase from China and a Morris + Co furnishing screen from the mid-1880s. The Makers and Creators exhibit curated by the princess - who has children Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and seven-year-old Prince Louis with husband Prince William - is intended to show how historic objects can influence a vast array of creative fields, including art, fashion, design and film, in the modern day. It will be unveiled at the museum on Wednesday (30.07.25) and is one of over 100 displays that have been presented in the sides and ends of storage racking inside the facility. V+A East Storehouse puts items that would otherwise be in storage on public display and includes more than 250,000 objects, 350,000 books and 1,000 special archives.
Perth Now
29-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Mabel married Preye Crooks
Mabel has got married. The 29-year-old singer tied the knot with music executive Preye Crooks on Saturday (26.07.25) in an intimate ceremony before heading to London's Victoria and Albert Museum for a spectacular party in the evening. A source told The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column: 'It was quite an intimate affair initially — they had a nice dinner with their closest friends and family to kick things off. "Then more of their loved ones turned up to celebrate with them in style later in the evening. 'They all had a brilliant time and Mabel and Preye looked so in love.' Around 150 people, including presenter Miquita Oliver and her mother Andi Oliver, enjoyed champagne and margaritas until late into the night at the museum, which costs at least £10,000 to hire for wedding parties. Mabel - who is the daughter of singer Neneh Cherry and musician-and-producer Cameron McVey - got engaged to Preye last November and she recently admitted her mother "just cries all the time" out of excitement about her wedding. The Finders Keepers hitmaker initially thought Preye was "too normal" when they first met because she was always attracted to men who were not going to treat her well. Speaking on the Miss Me podcast, she said: "Subconsciously when I met Preye, I was just like, 'No, he's too normal. He's not going to get this. He's too nice'. "He would ask me how I am. And I'm like, 'What do you want? What's the catch here?' "Because honestly, all I wanted to do was sit around chasing some guy that probably didn't reply, probably had a secret baby, secret girlfriend. All true stories. Sad but it's true." While the couple held their reception at the V+A, Mabel previously said she had been looking at other iconic London buildings for her wedding day. Asked where they might tie the knot, she said: "It's like St Paul's Cathedral. I think there's a few things you can do. I'm like, what can we get out of this?" The Don't Call Me Up singer and the Strawberries and Creem Festival organiser began dating in 2021 after meeting through the music industry.
