Royal Collection Season on the BBC

All images can be downloaded from www.bbcpictures.co.uk BBC One, The Coronation

Her Majesty The Queen with St Edward’s Crown Her Majesty The Queen and Alastair Bruce

The Coronation Spoon The Sovereign’s Sceptre

St Edward’s Crown The Imperial State Crown

Her Majesty The Queen Riding in the Gold State Coach Her Majesty The Queen with her Maids of Honour and the Archbishop of Canterbury during the after her Coronation. Credit: ITV Archive Coronation. Credit: ITV Archive BBC Four Art, Passion & Power: The Story of the Royal Collection Episode One

The Bearers of Trophies Charles I with and Bullion, detail from M. de St Antoine by The Triumphs of Caesar by Sir Anthony van Dyck, Andrea Mantegna, 1633 c.1484-92

Andrew Graham-Dixon comes face to face with Charles I by Sir Anthony van Dyck, 1635-before June 1636 Hubert Le Sueur’s portrait bust of Charles I

Cicely Heron by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1526-7

Andrew Graham-Dixon in the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace

Andrew Graham-Dixon in the Picture Gallery Andrew Graham-Dixon in the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace at Buckingham Palace BBC Four Art, Passion & Power: The Story of the Royal Collection Episode Two

Andrea Odoni by Lorenzo Lotto, 1527

The Bacino di San Marco on Ascension Day by Canaletto, c.1733-4

Frances Stuart, Charles II by Duchess of Richmond by John Michael Wright, Sir Peter Lely, 1662 c.1771-6

The foetus in the womb by Leonardo da Vinci, c.1511

Andrew Graham-Dixon in Venice on the trail of Canaletto

Andrew Graham-Dixon in Venice on the trail of Canaletto BBC Four Art, Passion & Power: The Story of the Royal Collection Episode Three

Roll top desk attributed to Jean- George IV when Henri Riesener, Prince of Wales, by c.1775-80 George Stubbs, 1791

Queen Victoria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1842

Florinda by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1852

George IV by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1791

Andrew Graham-Dixon in the Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Andrew Graham-Dixon in the Royal Pavilion, Brighton

BBC Four Art, Passion & Power: The Story of the Royal Collection Episode Four

Peacock Barge Inkstand, 1870-76. The Mosaic Egg by Presented to the Fabergé, 1914 future Edward VII by the Maharaja of Benares

HM Queen Elizabeth II, Dorothy Wilding, 15 April 1952

Andrew Graham-Dixon and HRH The Prince of Wales at St James’s Palace with the portrait series The Last of the Tide.

Andrew Graham-Dixon and HRH The Prince of Wales Andrew Graham-Dixon and HRH The Prince of Wales at St James’s Palace with the portrait series at St James’s Palace with the portrait series The Last of the Tide The Last of the Tide

Andrew Graham-Dixon at Buckingham Palace