Overview
- The King toured Tate Britain on Tuesday evening to see the Turner & Constable: Rivals and Originals exhibition in a private after-hours visit.
- He paused at J.M.W. Turner’s The Rising Squall (Hot Wells, from St Vincent’s Rock, Bristol, 1772), which had long been considered lost before its recent rediscovery.
- Curator Amy Concannon told him the painting had been in Tasmania, prompting his lighthearted question about other works "lurking in Australia," which drew a laugh.
- The exhibition marks 250 years since the births of Turner and Constable and brings together nearly 200 works, including rare international loans.
- Tate Britain reports more than 185,000 visitors since the show opened in late November, and HELLO! separately noted the timing of the King’s Australia remark alongside news of Prince Harry and Meghan’s planned mid-April trip.