Press releases
Download both recent and archived press releases about Waddesdon Manor, the Rothschild Collection and the Rothschild family.
Recent press releases
2022 press releases
Christmas at Waddesdon returns for 20th year
Vana Trust Organic Farm chosen as Waddesdon’s Charity of the Year 2022
‘Edmund de Waal: we live here, forever taking leave’ – opens 15 June at Waddesdon Manor
Thomas Gainsborough: ‘The Pink Boy’ Conserved
Waddesdon Manor and Royal Pavilion to stage ballet not performed for over 280 years this summer
Waddesdon Manor celebrates the life and legacy of Alice de Rothschild
Press releases 2019
‘Putting the house to bed’: Waddesdon’s unique Christmas tradition
A Rothschild Treasury
Waddesdon launches exclusive tours of Eythrope, a private Rothschild garden
Madame de Pompadour in the Frame
Brought to Life: Eliot Hodgkin Rediscovered
Waddesdon launches tours of Eythrope, a private Rothschild garden
Waddesdon Manor asks ‘Have you got a Hodgkin at home?’
What’s happening at Waddesdon in 2019?
Press releases 2017
Waddesdon Imaginarium, Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Electric Menagerie, Lauren Booth
Glorious Years: French Calendars from Louis XIV to the Revolution
Adam Dant commission, ‘The Mother of Parliaments: Annual Division of Revenue’
Power and Portraiture: painting at the court of Elizabeth I
Creatures & Creations: Art by Platon H and designs by Mary Katrantzou
Press releases 2016
Persuading the King: A Manuscript Petition by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780) >
A Closer Look: Spotlight on French Royal Furniture by Jean-Henri Riesener (1734-1806) >
Kate Malone: Inspired by Waddesdon >
Bountiful Invention: Drawings by Oppenord and Meissonnier >
The Veronica Scanner: Live 3D Portraiture >
Riches of the Earth >
Step this Way: Red Drawing Room opened up >
Christmas at Waddesdon 2016 >
Earlier press releases
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild’s Renaissance Museum: Treasures from the Smoking Room
Henry Moore: From Paper to Bronze, 100 Drawings, King and Queen, Hill Arches >
‘Lafite’ by Joana Vasconcelos, acquisition >
‘Resistance is Fertile’, Simon Periton >
Beyond All Price, Jane Wildgoose >
Waddesdon at War >
Christmas at Waddesdon 2015 >
Light Art at Waddesdon >
Predators and Prey: A Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel
Edmund de Waal at Waddesdon Press Release
Taking Time: Chardin’s Boy Building a House of Cards and other paintings
Bruce Munro Cantus Arcticus
Fame and Friendship: Pope, Roubiliac, and the Portrait Bust in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Royal Spectacle: Ceremonial and Festivities at the French Court
The Sunday Telegraph
Waddesdon is the definitive Fancy French plutocratic mansion. Absolutely everything there is the best of the best...
Peter York, Wig out, 12 Jun 2016
