Video: Royal dresses on display at Kensington Palace Dr Joanna Marschner, senior curator at Kensington Palace said: "These clothes go out almost as ambassadors." The exhibition is made up of five rooms, displaying 21 couture dresses, they also include film and photography to set the scene of the times in which these gowns were worn. The dresses reflect the trends of the day, and show how royal women negotiated the rules of dressing fashionably within the 'rules' of a royal wardrobe.