Buckingham Palace exhibition showcases the ultimate 17th century status symbol — telegraph.co.uk

The exhibition at The Queen's Gallery, opening next spring, will also use objects from the Royal Collection to look at the history of gardens across four centuries, including those at Hampton Court Palace, Whitehall Palace, Windsor Castle and Kew. But it is the fixation with the pineapple that provides the most curious branch of the exhibition. A silver-coated oak table, commissioned by William III for Kensington Palace in 1698, includes a life-sized pineapple at the crossing point of its stretchers.

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