High tea at the Orangery!  Scones and finger sandwiches and little tarts with tea after touring Kensington Palace. Our photo focus today was water, and I liked the fountains surrounded by flowers and foliage.

My favorite part of the palace tour was the section about Queen Victoria's life, and particularly her devotion to Albert.  She always wore mourning dress after his death.  The exhibit featured photos and memorabilia from Victoria's youth through her Golden Jubilee.  There were numerous letters in her handwriting and quotes from her on the walls.  It was an informative and touching exhibit.

Another interesting display was the dresses worn by Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, and Princess Diana in the decades of the 1950s through the 1980s.  Each dress was displayed next to a photo of it being worn and a caption describing the occasion. 

London has a series of Royal Parks, as I have mentioned before, and today I visited Kensington Gardens.  There was another water-related site which is the Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain. I expected a more traditional fountain, but what I found was an unusual sort of river of water, with bunches of little spurts keeping children cool as they played on this hot day.  I somehow think Diana would have liked that.

Kensington Gardens has a forever child in the form of the Peter Pan statue.  It was commissioned and given by Peter's creator, J.M.Barrie, in 1912.  Kensington Gardens is where Peter lived with the fairies after he ran away from home.  You can see them around him in the statue.