National Portrait Gallery After Hours

Date post added: 20th August 2025

It’s like a private viewing. Like someone’s slipped us the keys to the gallery.

It’s intimate. It’s exclusive. It’s unforgettable.

Time slows.

We’re up close. Face to face with them They’re practically leaning toward us. Whispering their secrets.

Elizabeth I and Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf and Winston Churchill and David Bowie and…

Just us. And them. And Marc. No rush. No melee. No elbows. The crowds have melted into the night.

The National Portrait Gallery on a Friday night – when the light is soft and the rooms feel like secret chambers – it’s a magic casement that’s swung open.

Runs this Friday (August 23) at 6 pm.

Book it here.


David Tucker

The doyen of London walking tour guides, David is the Seigneur of this favoured realm (London Walks). A literary historian and retreaded academic (London University Ph.D. on Dickens) and former television news editor, he broods over words, breeds enthusiasms and is "unmanageable." For good measure, he's a balterer, a logophile and a lifelong thanatophobe.

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