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THE ROYAL COLLECTION TRUST

Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2009

Company limited by guarantee, registered number 2713536 Registered Charity number 1016972 Scottish Charity number SC 039772 Annual Report 2009 mk4 pages.qxd:Annual Report 2004/5 corrected 03/07/2009 20:15 Page 2

TRUSTEES OF THE ROYAL COLLECTION TRUST

Chairman of the Trustees HRH The Prince of Wales, KG, KT, GCB, OM, AK, QSO, ADC

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Deputy Chairman The Earl Peel, GCVO

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Trustees Lady Shaw-Stewart Mr Duncan Robinson, CBE, DL Mr Peter Troughton The Rt Hon. Christopher Geidt, CVO, OBE Sir Alan Reid, KCVO

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CONTENTS

Chairman’s Foreword 5 Report of the Director of the Royal Collection 6 Custodial Control 11 Conservation 12 Pictures 12 Works of Art 13 Royal Library and Print Room 15 Royal Photograph Collection 16 Royal Archives 16 Access and Presentation 17 Buckingham Palace 17 The State Rooms 17 The Queen’s Gallery 19 The Royal Mews 19 Windsor Castle 20 The Drawings Gallery 20 Special Visits and Research Enquiries 20 Palace of Holyroodhouse 21 The Queen’s Gallery 22 Historic Royal Palaces 22 Loans from the Royal Collection 22 Interpretation 25 Education 25 Publishing 30 Electronic Access 33 Accessions and Acquisitions 34 Trading Activities 36 Financial Overview 38 Summarised Financial Statements 40 Appendices Exhibitions and Loans 43 Royal Collection Exhibitions 43 Combined Loans to External Exhibitions 44 Section Loans to External Exhibitions 45 Staff of the Royal Collection 48 External Appointments 48 Staff Training and Development 48 Staff Numbers 49 Staff List 50 Annual Report 2009 mk4 pages.qxd:Annual Report 2004/5 corrected 03/07/2009 20:15 Page 4

The official sixtieth birthday photograph of HRH The Prince of Wales was taken by Hugo Burnand at Clarence House in February 2008. It shows His Royal Highness in the ceremonial uniform of the Welsh Guards and was included in the exhibition at Windsor to celebrate The Prince’s birthday, shown from May 2008 to February 2009. Annual Report 2009 mk4 pages.qxd:Annual Report 2004/5 corrected 03/07/2009 20:15 Page 5 Annual Report 2009 mk5.qxd:Annual Report 2004/5 corrected 07/07/2009 18:02 Page 6

The special State Banquet display in the Ballroom for the 2008 Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace.

REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL COLLECTION Sir Hugh Roberts

hroughout a very uncertain year, the worldwide economic recession has inevitably affected most Tareas of tourism. Fortunately, however, the effects of this downturn on the principal activities of the Royal Collection have been relatively limited, and visitor numbers to the residences have remained stable. Numbers at Royal Collection exhibitions in London have been remarkably buoyant, notably for the exhibition of Flemish paintings, Bruegel to Rubens, seen by just under 100,000 visitors during the year. The 2008 Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace exceeded all expectations, attracting more than 390,000 visitors – an average of 6,250 a day and one of the highest attendance figures seen since the first opening of the Palace in 1993. The special display, which received much favourable media coverage, evoked the most spectacular of all State ceremonies at the Palace by recreating a State Banquet in the Ballroom. The dining-table and the buffets on either side of the room, specially lit with fibre optics, were laid with

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magnificent silver gilt from George IV’s Grand Service, intermingled with porcelain and flowers. A video clip and large-scale photographs in an adjacent space showed some of the multitude of activities – from preparing and cooking the food to folding the table-napkins and laying the table – that form part of the complex preparations for a State Banquet. Market research – and the excellent results – showed once again that visitors really value the opportunity to share the grandeur of a great royal State occasion, and they are also intrigued by the behind-the-scenes activities that support such events. This good outcome has enabled another substantial repayment of the bank borrowings incurred during the rebuilding of the two Queen’s Galleries, while also allowing a continued steady flow of investment in the aims and objectives of the Royal Collection Trust. Of these investments, the new Collections Management System, developed in partnership with the National Trust, continued to occupy centre stage on account of its complexity and the extent of the resources devoted to it in the last 12 months. This year has seen the completion of the final stages of user-acceptance testing, the migration of data from the old system to the new, and the first live use. Early indications are promising, and the full extent of the capacity of the new system will be thoroughly gauged during a programme of inventory checks in the year ahead. Reaching this point has required intense and dedicated effort on the part of the Royal Collection’s IT team and the suppliers, Serco. Conservation has, once again, been at the forefront of the Department’s activity. Work in all sections has concentrated heavily on preparing items for exhibition. In the Picture Studio, the programme has included preparation for Van Dyck and Britain at Tate Britain and The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse. In the newly enlarged Marlborough

Johan Zoffany, Queen Charlotte with her Children and Brothers, 1772. This charming group portrait records the visit of the Queen’s brothers in 1771 and is one of seven paintings by this artist included in The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse.

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Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of a Young Woman, c.1485–90 (detail). This delicate metalpoint drawing was one of the highlights of the Royal Collection’s travelling exhibition Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci: An Exhibition to Celebrate the Sixtieth Birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales, which was shown in Truro, Stirling, Aberystwyth and Manchester in 2008–9. Record visitor numbers were registered at each location. By the end of the tour, nearly 116,000 visitors had seen the exhibition.

House Workshops, preparation of works of art is well under way for the major forthcoming exhibition Victoria and Albert: Art and Love, which will be shown at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, in 2010. This will be the first exhibition drawn entirely from the Royal Collection to study in detail the extent and variety of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s artistic patronage, from their marriage in 1840 until the Prince’s untimely death in 1861. Throughout the year, the exhibition programme in The Queen’s Galleries in London and Edinburgh has provided visitors with much variety: the final months of Amazing Rare Things and Bruegel to Rubens in London, and the two-part showing of The Art of Italy, followed by The Conversation Piece, in Edinburgh. Preparations are well advanced for French Porcelain for English Palaces, which opens in London in May 2009 and coincides with the publication of Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue’s magnificent three-volume catalogue raisonné of the French porcelain in the Royal Collection. In the Drawings Gallery at Windsor Castle, the special exhibition to mark the sixtieth birthday of The Prince of Wales continued for most of the year and has now been succeeded by a display to mark the 500th anniversary of the accession of Henry VIII. The touring exhibition of ten major drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, also marking The Prince of Wales’s birthday, has completed its final showing at Manchester and has been seen by some 116,000

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visitors at four regional venues. At each gallery, the exhibition has attracted a substantial increase in visitor numbers, making the point that, for certain exhibitions, less is very often more. In addition to the Royal Collection’s own displays, a significant number of loans has been made to exhibitions in the UK and abroad. Highlights have included an important group of furniture, watercolours, porcelain and silver to Brighton Pavilion; French bronzes to France and to two locations in the USA; and paintings and drawings by Canaletto to Italy. In total, 262 works from across the Collection have been lent to 44 venues. A complete list of these loans can be found on pp. 43–7. Access to the Collection has continued to be provided through high-quality exhibition catalogues and catalogues raisonnés. These have included The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life by

Sébastien Slodtz, Mars, c.1700. One of 16 French bronzes lent to a major exhibition shown in Paris, New York and Los Angeles.

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Desmond Shawe-Taylor, and Ancient and Modern Gems and Jewels in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen by Dr Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti and Sir John Boardman. In addition, new material (including both the above catalogues) has been added to the Collection’s electronic gallery (e-Gallery), accessible via the Royal Collection website. The Education section has seen much activity in the year: more than 30,000 school visits, an expanded schools’ programme, and workshops, study days and seminars for adult audiences. The year ahead promises to be no less challenging than the last. Plans include a display at the Buckingham Palace Summer Opening to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the modern Commonwealth. This will contain a selection of gifts of all kinds presented to The Queen by Commonwealth countries, film footage, photographs and a selection of dresses, jewellery and insignia worn by Her Majesty on Commonwealth tours. At The Queen’s Gallery in London, an exhibition of French porcelain will celebrate George IV’s world-famous collection of Sèvres, and at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of

In 2009, extensive conservation work was carried Holyroodhouse, later in the year, there will be an out in the Paper Conservation Studio at Windsor exhibition focusing on photographs recording Scott’s on this large-scale preparatory study for Millais’s oil and Shackleton’s expeditions to the Antarctic. painting The Eve of St Agnes. The sketch was drawn in oil, watercolour and chalk on paper which had The Collection’s work has once again been most become brittle. Both painting and drawing were helpfully supported by the non-executive members of acquired by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, the board of Royal Collection Enterprises Limited and were included in the Picture in Focus display in the Education Room at The Queen’s Gallery, (Mrs Fiona Sale and Mr Tom Jenkins), and by the Buckingham Palace. valuable contributions of Mr Duncan Robinson and Mr Peter Troughton, external Trustees of the Royal Collection Trust, to the work of the Strategic Development Committee. The contribution of Mr Troughton (Chairman) and Mr Nigel Turnbull to the work of the Audit Committee is also most gratefully acknowledged. As in previous years, this Report groups the activities of the Collection under six main headings, to reflect the principal aims and objectives of the Royal Collection Trust. These aims and objectives are summarised on the inside front cover of the Report and are the yardstick by which the Trustees of the Royal Collection measure the year’s results, with particular reference to the Charity Commission’s guidelines on public benefit. The financial information is confined to a summary, but the full financial statements are available online (www.royalcollection.org.uk) or from the Registered Office, York House, St James’s Palace, London SW1A 1BQ.

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CUSTODIAL CONTROL

To ensure that the Royal Collection is subject to proper custodial control and that the works of art remain available to future generations.

The long-awaited Collections Management System (CMS), developed in partnership with the National Trust, has now been delivered. This has followed a significant period of testing and data preparation, during which 5,672 items were added to the database, bringing the total number to 645,580. The new system will provide a valuable enhancement to the existing functions of the database, and, once it is fully operational, options for further development of the system will be examined. Pending completion of the new CMS, inventory checks using the existing database have been carried out at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Sandringham House. Members of the Library team carried out inventory checks of incunabula in the Royal Library and of books at Osborne House, Buckingham Palace and Hampton Court Palace. A project to produce digital inventory photographs of all coins and medals in the collection was begun, and the contents of 123 solander boxes (approximately 2,800 drawings and watercolours) were checked in the Print Room. In the Royal Photograph Collection, a total of 20,506 inventory numbers (RCINs) were allocated during the year. The inventory of the collection of twentieth-century press photographs (transferred from the Central Office of Information) was completed. Work was also undertaken on Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother’s photograph collection, official photographs of State Visits, the Marcus Adams negatives and Queen Mary’s photograph albums. Inventory support continued to be given to the authors of catalogues raisonnés in progress (particularly Ancient and Modern Gems and Jewels in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen and French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen (both now published), and Oriental Porcelain). In the Royal Archives, the planned migration to the new Archives Management System of some 61,500 entries took place in July. The new system is now in full use for cataloguing, registering accessions, logging conservation work, the movement of archives and incoming enquiries. Work has resumed on cataloguing nineteenth- and twentieth-century Household and Royal Family records.

A new display of robes and insignia of the Order of the Thistle was installed in 2008 in the Queen’s Lobby at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Photographer: Shannon Tofts.

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CONSERVATION

To ensure that the Royal Collection is maintained and conserved to the highest possible standards and that visitors can view the Collection in the best possible condition.

PICTURES

Fifty-three paintings received treatment in the Conservation Studio. A larger number were condition-checked for exhibitions, external loans or in situ displays. For the exhibition The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life, four paintings were fully treated (A Music Party by De Hooch, and Grooms with Horses at Nijenrode Castle, Johann Ortt on Horseback Outside the Gate of Nijenrode Castle and A Groom Assisting a Riding Master at the Manège by Hondecoeter) and ten received conservation attention. The full treatment of two paintings, begun last year, was completed: Pythagoras Advocating Vegetarianism by Rubens and Snyders (included in the latest display of Treasures from the Royal Collection in The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace; see p. 19) and the anonymous Family of Henry VII with St George and the Dragon for the Henry VIII exhibition at Hampton Court Palace. For the major exhibition Van Dyck and Britain at Tate Britain, to which The Queen lent seven paintings, Lord George and Lord Francis Villiers by Van Dyck was fully cleaned and Lady Mary Villiers as St Agnes was given conservation treatment. Conservation for other loans to external exhibitions included St Sebastian by Parentino, Abdul Mejid, Sultan of Turkey by Wilkie and The Connoisseurs by Landseer.

Anon, Family of Henry VII with St George and the Dragon, 1503–9. This intriguing painting was specially conserved for the Young Henry exhibition at Hampton Court, marking the 500th anniversary of the accession of Henry VIII.

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Pietra dura cabinet by Adam Weisweiler, c.1780, conserved in the Marlborough House Workshops prior to exhibition in Art of the Royal Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Full treatment in external conservation studios was completed on five paintings: Venice, Caprice View of the Monastery of the Lateran Canons by Canaletto for the exhibition Andrea Palladio at the Royal Academy; Charles II Dancing by Janssens for The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace; Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta, Princess of Wales by Van Loo for the State Dining Room, Buckingham Palace; and Frederick, Prince of Wales, with members of ‘La Table Ronde’ by Philips for the exhibition The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse. Thirty miniatures were condition-checked for inclusion in the forthcoming exhibition Victoria and Albert: Art and Love at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, and 14 of these received conservation treatment by an external conservator. In addition, 70 miniatures were given conservation treatment and 30 were fitted with new glasses.

WORKS OF ART

A total of 190 works of art were fully conserved in the Marlborough House Workshops and in the horological workshops. Much of the work was carried out for Royal Collection exhibitions, including The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life (seven picture frames) and the forthcoming Victorian exhibition, or for loans to exhibitions elsewhere. In the latter category, a pietra dura cabinet by Adam Weisweiler (see illustration above), probably acquired by George IV in 1792, was prepared for loan to the exhibition Art of the Royal Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and 16 seventeenth-

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Part of the west wall of the King’s Guard Chamber, Hampton Court Palace, following the reinstatement of 1,013 weapons after conservation.

and eighteenth-century French bronze statuettes and groups were cleaned and treated for the major exhibition Bronzes français / Cast in Bronze shown at the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and, later in 2009, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. In a collaboration with conservators from Historic Royal Palaces, the Armourer oversaw the reinstatement of approximately 1,000 weapons in the King’s Guard Chamber at Hampton Court Palace, following a year’s conservation and recording work by a subcontracted team. At the same time, a further 965 weapons were taken down for conservation. The Armourer also undertook further work on the Swords of State from the Regalia in the Tower of London, and cleaned, conserved and recorded three funerary helms (the earliest dating to the fourteenth century) from St George’s Chapel, Windsor. A new workspace for large objects, with direct and level vehicular access, was added to the Marlborough House Workshops by the incorporation of a redundant garage. Concurrently, the woodworking machinery was reinstalled in a separate area. Her Majesty The Queen marked the completion of this project with a visit on 10 December, taking the opportunity to inspect work in progress on objects selected for the forthcoming Victorian exhibition. These included the Travancore Throne, which was the centrepiece of the Indian section of the Great Exhibition of 1851; the gilded and painted case of a piano made for Queen Victoria in 1856; and the series of ‘Highlander’ candelabra made by Winfield & Co., with

In December 2008 Her Majesty The Queen visited the Marlborough House Workshops to see the new workspace and to inspect work in progress.

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Minton figures designed by Landseer. The conservation of a suite of German stag-horn seat furniture and a set of large French gilt-bronze torchères made for Buckingham Palace by Barbedienne of Paris, was undertaken in outside workshops. Marlborough House staff also visited Balmoral and Osborne House for condition reporting, photography and packing work in connection with the same exhibition. The workshop of the Superintendent of the Royal Collection at Hampton Court Palace was relocated to make way for the re-presentation of Henry VIII’s Council Chamber, and the Armourer’s base at Windsor was also relocated and improved. A further 156 items of furniture were treated as part of the ongoing cycle of maintenance undertaken by the Master of the Household’s ‘C’ Branch, whose projects included the complete overhaul of the bench-seating in the Ballroom at Buckingham Palace, originally supplied by Johnstone and Jeanes in 1856.

ROYAL LIBRARY AND PRINT ROOM

The Bindery staff completed work on two important manuscripts. The fifteenth-century Holyrood Ordinal (see p. 21) was cleaned and repaired prior to re-display at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. A small manuscript notebook of possible literary projects written by Samuel Johnson, entitled Designs, was re-bound in the manner of the original following conservation. An old pasting-down of one leaf on to another was lifted to reveal text hidden for 250 years. Extensive conservation and re-binding was also completed on Aurora Australis. This important volume, dated 1908, is a de-luxe copy of the first book produced entirely in Antarctica and has a unique binding made from a packing case of ‘Venesta’ (a precursor of plywood). Each copy is known by the commodity originally contained in the packing case – in this case, mock turtle soup. The work involved taking the volume apart and developing an innovative style of expanding joint to allow more flexibility. This book will be included in the Antarctic exhibition later in 2009. Approximately 1,400 books have been conserved with the help of two long-term volunteers. Of these, 566 were refurbished at Buckingham Palace during a summer project by a team of seven volunteers, and the remainder were treated at Windsor. In addition, about 50 volumes were refurbished prior to inclusion in exhibitions and displays in royal residences. Conservators spent three days at Osborne House training two museum handlers and six volunteers in book refurbishment techniques for use in the maintenance of Royal Collection books at Osborne. Two members of staff from the Chatsworth House Trust spent three days at Windsor learning refurbishment techniques. In the Bindery, work was also completed on the manufacture of one slip case and one drop-back box, made for presentation volumes to be given during Her Majesty’s State Visit to Turkey in 2008, and the State Visit of the President of the United Mexican States in 2009. Treatment was completed on a total of 98 items from the Print Room. Of these, 62 were conserved, including ten prints, 25 watercolours, seven drawings and 18 architectural plans; 83 were mounted; and 35 were permanently framed. The architectural plans were conserved by four students from the BA Conservation course at Camberwell College of Arts, the University of the Arts London, during a two-week work placement. Work for Royal Collection exhibitions included one oil sketch on paper by Millais (see p. 10) for The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace; two drawings, one watercolour and one

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manuscript for HRH The Prince of Wales: An Exhibition to Celebrate His Sixtieth Birthday; ten items for Henry VIII: A 500th Anniversary Exhibition (both shown at the Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle); and five for the forthcoming Victorian exhibition. Five watercolours, three prints and one document were prepared for temporary displays, and 29 items for hanging in royal residences. Thirty-nine items were conserved or mounted and framed for loan to external venues, including two drawings and 16 watercolours for the Château de Compiègne, five watercolours and one gouache for Nottingham and Edinburgh, one collage, two drawings and one print for Kew Palace, three drawings for Bruges, three for Welshpool, one drawing each for Bologna, Frankfurt, Leeds and Lucca, and one print for London (the National Portrait Gallery). A project with Historic Royal Palaces to conserve the prints hanging in Queen Charlotte’s Cottage, Kew Gardens, was begun in February 2009, and is being carried out by an external conservator.

ROYAL PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION

Treatment was completed on 46 photographs and five albums. Nine photographs were mounted for HRH The Prince of Wales: An Exhibition to Celebrate His Sixtieth Birthday and five were mounted for loan to Welshpool. Work began on the preparation of photographs for three forthcoming Royal Collection exhibitions: The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography; Fenton and Cameron: Early British Photographs from the Royal Collection; and the Victorian exhibition. A survey of photograph albums was completed.

ROYAL ARCHIVES

The conservation of 11 Victorian folders was completed and work continued on conserving George III’s essays and on bills for Frederick, Prince of Wales. Re-bound books included a further volume of the diary of King George V, letters from Prince Albert to Baron Stockmar, a volume of Queen Victoria’s private accounts and papers relating to the Albert Memorial. Thirty-five items were conserved in preparation for temporary displays.

Alexandra, Princess of Wales (later Queen Alexandra), King Christian IX of Denmark, Prince Edward of York, and King George I of the Hellenes, 1898. Gelatin silver print, with pencil. Lent to the exhibition Queen Alexandra at Powysland Museum, Welshpool, in 2008.

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ACCESS AND PRESENTATION

To ensure that as much of the Royal Collection as possible can be seen by members of the public; that the Collection is presented and interpreted so as to enhance the public’s appreciation and understanding; and that access to the Collection is broadened and increased (subject to capacity constraints) to ensure that as many people as possible are able to view the Collection.

Access to the Royal Collection is provided in various ways, including:

• the regular opening to the public of the Official Residences of Her Majesty The Queen (managed by the Royal Collection Trust); of the private residences containing works from the Royal Collection (managed by the Private Estates); of the unoccupied residences (managed by the Historic Royal Palaces Trust); and of Osborne House (managed by English Heritage); • changing exhibitions at The Queen’s Galleries and in the Drawings Gallery, Windsor; • online access via the e-Gallery; • the publication of books and catalogues on the Collection for both academic and general-interest audiences; • the loan of works of art to other organisations for public exhibition.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE

The State Rooms

The State Rooms were open for 63 days from 29 July to 29 September (2007: 63 days) and attracted more than 394,000 visitors, an average of 6,250 per day (2007: 360,000 visitors; average of 5,715 per day). The substantial increase in numbers (22.4 per cent above budget and 9.6 per cent above the prior year) was due in large part to the popularity of the special display of a State Banquet, the central event of a State Visit to Great Britain by a foreign Head of State. The dining-table in the Ballroom was laid with 97 place- settings (abridged from the standard 167 in order to allow safe circulation by visitors) and a magnificent arrangement of plate from George IV’s Grand Service (see p. 6). Sèvres biscuit porcelain figures and English and French porcelain services were incorporated among almost 2,000 objects on

The Mercury and Bacchus candelabrum, 1809–17, by Paul Storr, was part of the State Banquet display during the 2008 Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace.

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Queen Mary (consort of King George V) was closely involved in the Queen’s Institute of District Nursing, and on the fiftieth anniversary of the Institute’s foundation she inspected 2,000 nurses from the west terrace of Buckingham Palace in June 1937. This photograph, from one of Queen Mary’s photograph albums, formed part of the display of items from the Royal Collection and Royal Archives exhibited at the Healthcare reception at Buckingham Palace in November 2008.

the table. The presentation involved close collaboration between the curatorial and exhibition staff of the Royal Collection and the staff of the Master of the Household’s department responsible for the plate and china pantries. In the Annexe adjoining the Ballroom, which plays an important part in the service of a State Banquet, visitors watched a film of preparations for recent banquets, while the audio guide included the voices of members of the Master of the Household’s department describing their roles. Temporary displays of material from the Royal Collection and the Royal Archives were mounted in the State Rooms for The Queen’s guests at themed receptions for members of the Hospitality sector (in May) and for members of the Healthcare professions (in November). In March 2009 a selection of items was shown for the State Visit of the President of the United Mexican States. Items from each of these displays were included on the Royal Collection’s e-Gallery.

This gold brooch was presented to The Queen by President Echeverría during the State Visit to Mexico in February 1975. It was among the items included in the display for the incoming State Visit by President Calderón of Mexico in March 2009.

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The Queen’s Gallery

The Gallery was open for 345 days in the year to 31 March 2009 and attracted 194,000 visitors. Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery was shown from 14 March to 28 September 2008 and attracted 122,000 visitors. This was followed by Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting, from 17 October 2008 to 26 April 2009, which drew 97,250 visitors. Both exhibitions were accompanied by changing displays of Treasures from the Royal Collection. The painting The Eve of St Agnes (1863) by Sir John Everett Millais, together with an accompanying preparatory sketch, constituted the Picture in Focus display in the Education Room (see p. 10).

The newly conserved painting, Pythagoras Advocating Vegetarianism, by Sir Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders, during installation in The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, in October 2008.

The Royal Mews

The Royal Mews was open to visitors between 15 March and 30 October 2008, and re-opened on 28 March 2009 (14 fewer days than the previous year). In 2008–9, visitor numbers were 153,000 (1 per cent below the previous year), once again reflecting the continuing success of the Royal Day Out ticket and the strong performance of the Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace.

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WINDSOR CASTLE

Visitor numbers at Windsor Castle and Frogmore House totalled 959,000 in 2008–9, a decline of 4.4 per cent on the previous year, due in part to the effect on tourism of the worsening worldwide financial crisis. For the Christmas season, Queen Victoria’s sleigh was shown in St George’s Hall. Items from the Royal Collection and the Royal Archives were displayed in the Royal Library for The Queen’s guests in April 2008 and for The Prince of Wales’s guests in June 2008, and a special display was set out in the Green Drawing Room for the private farewell visit by President and Mrs George W. Bush on 15 June. A selection of material relating to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the Castle of Mey was shown at Frogmore House on 1 May for a visit by the Castle of Mey supporters.

The Drawings Gallery

In addition to the changing display of Old Master This photograph, taken at Balmoral at the start of The Queen’s reign, was included in the exhibition drawings, the exhibition Royal Weddings 1840–1947 (to HRH The Prince of Wales: An Exhibition to Celebrate celebrate the sixtieth wedding anniversary of The Queen His Sixtieth Birthday in the Drawings Gallery, and The Duke of Edinburgh) ran to 11 May 2008. HRH Windsor Castle, from 16 May 2008 to 22 February 2009. It was also included in the Royal Collection The Prince of Wales: An Exhibition to Celebrate His Sixtieth publication Charles, Prince of Wales: A Birthday Birthday was shown from 16 May 2008 to 22 February 2009. Souvenir Album. The Gallery then closed for maintenance work prior to re- opening on 8 April with a further selection of Old Master drawings and Henry VIII: A 500th Anniversary Exhibition.

Special Visits and Research Enquiries

Visitors to the Royal Library in the course of the year included the wife of the President of Slovenia, with the Slovenian Ambassador and his wife, in preparation for The Queen’s visit to Slovenia; and the Italian Ambassador and his wife. In the summer, senior partners from KPMG, together with their guests, attended a sponsors’ event in the China Museum, followed by a tour of the Library and State Apartments; and in September 2008 the Royal Librarian welcomed eight European Royal Librarians to Windsor, with visits to Frogmore and to the various sections of the Royal Library and Archives. Special group visits were also paid to the Royal Library and Archives by the participants of the 2008 Royal Collection Studies course, and by the senior curators and patrons of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. The Royal Archives and Royal Photograph Collection put on joint displays in the Round Tower for archivists from the South-East Region of the Society of Archivists.

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The Royal Library received 28 individual researchers, amounting to 44 research days in total. Works from the Royal Library and Print Room were put on display in the Upper Library for 13 special group visits (amounting to some 295 visitors), including staff from the Chapter Archives at St George’s Chapel, the Society of Bookbinders, the Oxford Bibliographical Society and the Windsor Festival Schools’ competition prize-winners. The Print Room received visits from 135 individual researchers, and from groups of students from Reading University, the Courtauld Institute and Summer School, The Prince of Wales’s Drawing School and Regent’s American College. A total of 35 individual researchers consulted the Royal Photograph Collection. Additional group visits, for which displays were set out, included students from the Sotheby’s Institute MA in History of Photography and the University of London SOAS Asian Art Diploma course. The archivists dealt with 1,354 postal, telephone and e-mail enquiries requiring a written response (1,324 in 2007–8), of which 439 were genealogical, 744 general and 171 were for information required by the Royal Household. Seventy-two researchers visited the Royal Archives, carrying out 413 research days (70 and 336 in 2007–8).

PALACE OF HOLYROODHOUSE

Visitor numbers to the Palace of Holyroodhouse totalled 217,000 in 2008–9. Although a 3 per cent decline on 2007–8, this was a relatively good performance in a mixed year for visitor attractions in Scotland. A new display on the Order of the Thistle, including a mantle and insignia, was installed in the Queen’s Lobby at the end of the Great Gallery (see p. 11), and the fifteenth-century Holyrood Ordinal (see illustration below) was displayed in Mary, Queen of Scots’ Outer Chamber following extensive conservation and research. Special visits were paid by The Lord High Commissioner, his Suite and Guard; the Mary Stuart Society; members of the Scottish Parliament; staff from the Stirling Smith Art Gallery; and members of The Queen’s Ecclesiastical Household.

The mid-fifteenth-century Holyrood Ordinal was returned to public view at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in November 2008, following cleaning and conservation in the Royal Bindery at Windsor. The manuscript was in daily use in the Abbey of Holyrood until the mid-sixteenth century. The tooled leather covering, on the original oak boards, dates from around 1500. It appears to be one of the earliest surviving Scottish bindings.

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The Queen’s Gallery

The exhibition The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection, shown to considerable acclaim in London in 2007–8, was transferred to Edinburgh in two stages – The Renaissance from 25 April to 26 October 2008, and The Baroque from 13 November 2008 to 8 March 2009. The two showings attracted a total of more than 53,000 visitors. The most recent exhibition, The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life, opened on 27 March 2009.

HISTORIC ROYAL PALACES

The management of the unoccupied residences (which contain large and important sections of the Royal Collection) is the responsibility of Historic Royal Palaces (HRP). Working with colleagues at HRP, curatorial, conservation and administrative staff from the Royal Collection are closely involved in a number of projects, currently including the conservation and re-display of the weaponry in the King’s Guard Chamber at Hampton Court (see p. 14), the ongoing exhibitions marking the 500th anniversary of the accession of Henry VIII, and the plans to improve the presentation and interpretation of Kensington Palace and the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London.

LOANS FROM THE ROYAL COLLECTION

Pictures

Eighty-four pictures and six miniatures were lent to 20 exhibitions in the USA, Belgium, Italy, France, Germany, Austria and the UK. Among the most significant loans this year were the six paintings by Van Dyck to Tate Britain, including the life-size equestrian portrait of Charles I and the group portrait of the King and Queen with their two eldest children (‘The Greate Peece’).

Works of Art

Fifty-two items were lent to exhibitions in 14 locations, including France, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, the USA and the UK. The largest and most complex loan has been that of the 16 French bronzes to the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and (later in 2009) to the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Royal Library, Print Room and Royal Photograph Collection

One hundred and thirty-two drawings and watercolours, one sketchbook, two prints, eight photographs and one photograph album, five fans, one medal and two documents from the Royal Archives were loaned to 27 exhibitions at venues across the UK, Europe and the USA. Highlights included a loan of

OPPOSITE: Sir Anthony Van Dyck, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and Lord Francis Villiers, 1635, painted for Charles I; conserved during the year and lent to the exhibition at Tate Britain, Van Dyck and Britain.

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Jean-Baptiste-Fortuné Fournier, Queen Victoria’s Drawing Room at St-Cloud in August 1855. This watercolour was among the large group of Royal Collection items included in the exhibition Napoléon III et Victoria at the Château de Compiègne from October 2008 to January 2009.

20 drawings (with two paintings) by Canaletto to the exhibition Canaletto e Bellotto: L’arte della veduta in Turin; 17 watercolours and a fan (with seven paintings and two works of art) to the exhibition Napoléon III et Victoria at the Château de Compiègne; and 16 watercolours by Maria Sibylla Merian to the exhibition Maria Sibylla Merian and Daughters: Women of Art and Science at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Royal Collection Travelling Exhibitions

Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting was exhibited at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, between the two showings at The Queen’s Galleries in Edinburgh and London. Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci: An Exhibition to Celebrate the Sixtieth Birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales, which opened at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, on 10 May 2008, attracted a total of 116,000 visitors. The showings of the exhibition at Stirling, Aberystwyth and Manchester all enjoyed numerous school visits and record attendance figures for the galleries concerned.

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INTERPRETATION

To ensure that the Collection is presented and interpreted so as to enhance the public’s appreciation and understanding.

Visitors’ understanding and appreciation of the works of art in the Royal Collection is enhanced by a range of interpretation:

• audio tours (in eight different languages at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse), which are included in the cost of admission to all sites; • guided tours, included in the cost of admission at the Royal Mews, Frogmore House and Clarence House; • a programme of BSL-interpreted and lipspeaking guided tours for deaf and hearing-impaired visitors, and verbal-description guided tours for blind and partially sighted visitors; • education centres, with facilities for school parties; • guidebooks (also multi-language), catalogues and books about the works of art in the Royal Collection; • the online e-Gallery, which provides digital access to over 5,600 items from the Collection.

Investment in interpretation for visitors this year has included the development of an audio tour to accompany the exhibition The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life and the updating of audio tours at Windsor Castle, the Palace of Holyroodhouse and Buckingham Palace to reflect changes in the display of works of art along the visitor routes. The first annual programme of BSL-interpreted and lipspeaking guided tours took place at all four London sites, Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Verbal- description guided tours were given for blind and partially sighted visitors to the Summer Opening of the State Rooms, the Royal Mews and The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. Further events for blind and partially sighted people, in collaboration with Artlink, were held at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse. The Royal Collection again took part in the annual market research benchmarking scheme run by the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA). The ALVA survey is conducted in three waves, and the individual site results are measured against the average score of all participating organisations (currently more than 30). The key indicators of visitor satisfaction were within the following ranges: Overall enjoyment +1.1 to +1.7; Value for money +0.8 to +1.4 (Excellent (+2) Good (+1) Just OK (0) Poor (−1) Very Poor (−2)).

EDUCATION

Schools and Families

The number of primary and secondary school groups visiting the Official Residences has increased to more than 30,000 in the last year. A regular programme of teachers’ evenings and a new schools’ leaflet helped to raise awareness of the resources available for school groups. New schools’ programmes included

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a series of poetry and painting workshops for secondary schools, based on The Eve of St Agnes by J.E. Millais, a Picture in Focus display in the Education Room at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. Successful joint school-visit partnerships continued with the Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh Castle and the Windsor Museums Service. The regular programme of family activities during the school holidays was expanded with the introduction of new activity trails and family guided tours. Highlights of the last 12 months included a demonstration of the materials and techniques of conservation by the Marlborough House conservators at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace (see illustration opposite); the creation of a giant siege scene during the Big Draw at Windsor Castle; family tours of the paintings in the State Apartments at Windsor; and a special event at the Palace of Holyroodhouse to coincide with St Andrew’s Day.

Adults

The thirteenth annual Royal Collection Studies Summer School, based for the first time at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park, took place in September 2008, organised (as in previous years) by the Attingham Trust and directed by Giles Waterfield. The 30 participants came from 13 countries, and approximately three-quarters were supported by scholarships funded through the Attingham Trust. The majority of the lectures and visits over the ten-day course were given or led by Royal Collection curatorial staff. The education programme for the two parts of The Art of Italy exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, included a series of evening lectures given by Royal Collection curators and

Family groups taking part in the Big Draw art workshops held in the Moat Education Room, Windsor Castle, in October 2008.

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A demonstration of conservation techniques and materials by conservators from the Marlborough House Workshops, at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace.

conservators, a joint study day with the National Galleries of Scotland, and a practical art course. Research seminars, organised with the Visual Arts Research Institute, Edinburgh, and the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, were held during the exhibition. A joint study day with the Wallace Collection accompanied Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. A study afternoon for Fine Art and History of Art undergraduates from Wimbledon College of Art, the Courtauld Institute of Art and Kingston University gave students the opportunity to talk to the exhibition’s curators.

Lectures and Talks given by Staff

Rea Alexandratos (Dal Pozzo Project Co-ordinator) gave a number of gallery talks in connection with the Amazing Rare Things exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace.

Julia Bagguley (Database Cataloguer, Works of Art) spoke on Commonwealth gifts at Cumberland Lodge.

Al Brewer (Paintings Conservator) gave a talk on ‘The structure of panel paintings, the causes of damage to them and appropriate treatments’ to the Institute of Conservation (Icon) Stone and Wall Paintings Group at Hampton Court Palace.

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Claire Chorley (Paintings Conservator) spoke on Boy with a Pipe attributed to Titian at a research seminar in connection with The Art of Italy exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse.

Beth Clackett (Database Cataloguer, Works of Art) spoke at the Kensington Dolls’ House Festival on Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House.

Deborah Clarke (Assistant Curator, Palace of Holyroodhouse) gave tours of The Art of Italy exhibitions at a Teachers’ Evening and for the World Monuments Fund, and gave introductions to the exhibitions during two private views. She also spoke on the exhibitions to Gallery staff and organised the two research seminars and study day for university staff and curators from around Scotland.

Martin Clayton (Deputy Curator of the Print Room) gave a public lecture and spoke at two research seminars on The Art of Italy exhibitions at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse. He gave further public lectures in connection with the exhibition Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci at Truro, Stirling and Aberystwyth, and a number of gallery talks in connection with Amazing Rare Things at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace.

Steven Davidson (Horological Conservator, Windsor Castle) lectured on clocks at Windsor Castle to the University of the Third Age in Suffolk, the Friends of Bushey Museum and Imatra School in Finland.

Rosanna de Sancha (Paintings Conservator) spoke on Pythagoras Advocating Vegetarianism with Desmond Shawe-Taylor at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, and gave a talk at the Wallace Collection study day on Masters of Flemish Painting, Rubens and Snyders: A Fruitful Collaboration.

Alan Donnithorne (Head of Paper Conservation) spoke on the conservation and mounting of the Leonardo drawings in the Royal Collection at a seminar held at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, to discuss the future conservation of the Leonardo drawings from the Codex Atlanticus.

Sophie Gordon (Curator of the Royal Photograph Collection) presented a paper on ‘Photography at Vijayanagara’ to the Sons of Light seminar, and gave a lecture entitled ‘Princely India’ to postgraduate students, on photography and the creation of an image in Princely India, both at the University of London, SOAS.

Kate Heard (Assistant Curator of the Print Room) lectured on ‘A glazing scheme for Archbishop Stafford’ at St Andrews’ Medieval Research Seminar, and on ‘“Much more a matter of trade than of art”: embroidery in late medieval England’ at the British Archaeological Association and the Oxford History of Art Research Seminar.

Kathryn Jones (Assistant Curator, Works of Art) spoke on Commonwealth gifts at Cumberland Lodge, and to the Silver Society at Buckingham Palace on the Grand Service and the State Banquet.

Sabrina Mackenzie (Publishing Assistant; formerly Database Cataloguer, Prints and Drawings) gave several talks in connection with the Royal Weddings exhibition in the Drawings Gallery at Windsor, and spoke to the Castle of Mey Supporters at Frogmore House.

Jonathan Marsden (Deputy Surveyor of The Queen’s Works of Art) lectured on French bronzes for the French Porcelain Society in London, and again (in connection with the exhibition Bronzes français / Cast in Bronze) at the Louvre, Paris, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Stephen Patterson (Head of Collections Information Management) lectured on ‘The Stuart insignia, their travels and travails’ to the Jewellery History Society and on the new Collections Management System to the students of the Museum Studies Department at the University of Leicester.

Jane Roberts (Librarian and Curator of the Print Room) gave the introductory talk at the Windsor Festival Literary Weekend, and lectured on ‘The treasures of the Royal Library’ to the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society.

Jennifer Scott (Loans Officer and Assistant Curator, Paintings) spoke on the exhibition Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting on several occasions at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, at the Summerleaze Gallery, Wiltshire, at Christie’s Education, for NADFAS at the Cavalry and Guards Club, and at Westminster School. She spoke on ‘Tudor paintings’ for the Embroiderers’ Guild at Hampton Court Palace; on ‘The art of the Tudor courts’ for the Art Fund at the Wallace Collection; on ‘Royal portraits’ at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; on ‘Charles I and the art of collecting’ at the National Gallery; on ‘The image of kingship: Henry VIII’ at Hampton Court Palace; on ‘European portrait painting’ for the Art Fund at Chester University; and on ‘History through art: the Southern Netherlands 1500–1648’ at the Wallace Collection study day on Masters of Flemish Painting. She also led a study day on ‘The art of Georgian collecting’ at Kew Palace.

Desmond Shawe-Taylor (Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures) lectured on The Art of Italy for NADFAS at the National Gallery of Scotland; on The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life at Magdalene College, Cambridge; on ‘What is the Baroque?’ at the joint Royal Collection/National Gallery of Scotland study day; and on Pythagoras Advocating Vegetarianism with Rosanna de Sancha at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace.

Christopher Stevens (Superintendent of the Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace) spoke on the work of the Hampton Court Palace Salvage Team at a one-day seminar at Gloucestershire Archives.

Tabitha Teuma (Paintings Conservator) gave a talk on ‘The Family of Henry VII with St George and the Dragon: a dynastic statement’ for the British Association of Paintings Conservator-Restorers at the Art Workers Guild, Bloomsbury, and at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge.

Jane Wallis (Furniture Conservator) spoke on recent projects to students at London Metropolitan University.

David Wheeler (Senior Furniture Conservator) spoke on recent projects to the AGM of the Institute of Conservation (Icon) Gilding Section.

Lucy Whitaker (Assistant Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures) spoke at the two research seminars on The Art of Italy exhibition and on ‘Caravaggio: a question of attribution. The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew and Boy Peeling Fruit’ with Rupert Featherstone, Director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge, at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse.

Rhian Wong (Print Room Assistant) spoke at the Windsor staff and residents’ view of HRH The Prince of Wales: An Exhibition to Celebrate His Sixtieth Birthday in the Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle.

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PUBLISHING

Among the highlights of the year’s publishing programme was The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life, published in March 2009, the first Royal Collection exhibition catalogue to integrate digital photography into the production process. The previous paintings catalogue, Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting, has sold more than 6,200 copies. Both catalogues were written by Desmond Shawe-Taylor. Other books published during the year included Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, by Martin Clayton, which accompanied the touring exhibition organised to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales; Charles, Prince of Wales: A Birthday Souvenir Album, compiled by Jane Roberts and Rhian Wong in connection with the exhibition in the Drawings Gallery at Windsor Castle; and For the Royal Table: Dining at the Palace, compiled by Kathryn Jones to accompany the special display for the 2008 Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace. Mr Marshal’s Flower Book, published in April 2008, has proved to be one of the Royal Collection’s most popular titles, selling more than 5,000 copies in its first year; as reported last year, Penguin Studio has produced a co-edition for sale in the USA. This attractive book follows the Royal Collection’s 2000 publication of The Florilegium of Alexander Marshal at Windsor Castle by Prudence Leith-Ross. Treasures: The Royal Collection, edited by Jane Roberts, was published in September 2008. Based on the large exhibition catalogue produced for the re-opening of The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, in 2002, this book provides an overview of one of the most important art collections in the world, and an introduction to some of the greatest masterpieces in the Collection. Royal Collection Publications exhibited at the London and Frankfurt Book Fairs in March and October 2008, and attended the College Art Association conference in Los Angeles in February 2009. Sales of both licensed and co-editions have extended to Queen Elizabeth II: A Birthday Souvenir Album, Noble Hounds and Dear Companions and For the Royal Table: Dining at the Palace. The third of these titles has followed the success

The English (2007) and German (2009) editions of Noble Hounds and Dear Companions. The latter was published by Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag, which has licensed German editions of two further titles in this format.

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of the previous two, with more than 8,000 copies sold since its publication in July 2008. Work is well under way on the publication that will accompany this year’s Summer Opening display, Queen & Commonwealth: The Royal Tour. Also well advanced is the book that will accompany the Royal Collection exhibition The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography. The format of this book is modelled on that of Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery, and includes an introduction and commentaries by the Antarctic explorer David Hempleman-Adams. Amazing Rare Things continues to sell strongly, and a paperback For the Royal Table: Dining at the Palace was published in July edition will shortly be available for the first time to 2008 to accompany the special display for the 2008 Summer the general book trade. Co-editions and licensing Opening of Buckingham Palace. sales have helped compensate for increased print costs in 2008–9 (caused mainly by currency fluctuations), and some headway has been made in reaching new markets by concluding an agreement with Heritage House for the trade distribution of the Royal Collection’s guidebook titles. In addition, all Royal Collection publications can now be purchased via the Royal Collection website. On the academic publishing side, the catalogue raisonné of Ancient and Modern Gems and Jewels in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen was published in October 2008. Sales have reflected the critical success, and it is likely that the catalogue will sell out within a year of publication. Editorial and production work focused on the definitive catalogue raisonné French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen by Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue. This three-volume work will be published in May 2009, to coincide with the opening of an exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. Work is ongoing on four other catalogues of paintings and works of art in the Collection – Victorian Miniatures, Oriental Porcelain, Sculpture, and Arms and Armour. Research and editorial work has continued on the project to publish the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588–1657),

Cameo of Claudius, sardonyx, AD 43–5, from the collection of Charles I. From the catalogue raisonné Ancient and Modern Gems and Jewels in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen by Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti and John Boardman, published in 2008.

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a collection of some 10,000 drawings and prints dispersed between the Royal Library at Windsor, the British Library, the Institut de France and various other public and private collections. Martin Clayton, Luigi Guerrini and Alejandro de Ávila completed work on the fifteenth volume, Flora: The Aztec Herbal, a catalogue of a manuscript commissioned around 1626, which will be published in 2009–10. Several further volumes in the series are currently in preparation. Royal Collection Publications has become, by invitation, a member of the Motovun Group Association. This organisation offers access to numerous European art publishers and a great deal of expertise in the fields of children’s publishing and new technologies.

In addition to the Royal Collection publications mentioned above, the following publications by staff of the Royal Collection appeared during the year:

Sophie Gordon: ‘Orientalism and photography’ (review), in History of Photography, 32:1, spring 2008; ‘Presenting an image: princely photography in India’, in Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, ed., Portraits in Princely India 1700–1947, Mumbai, 2008; ‘The colonial project and the shifting gaze’, in Marg, 59:4, June 2008; ‘The Royal Tour in India’, in The Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia, 17:3, September 2008; ‘Greenlaw and his successors’, in G. Michell, ed., Vijayanagara: Splendour in Ruins, Ahmedabad, 2008; ‘The colonial project and the shifting gaze’, in G. Sinha, ed., Art and Visual Culture in India, Mumbai, 2009.

Kate Heard: Review of Nigel Morgan, The Douce Apocalypse, in Bodleian Library Record, XX, for 2007; Report on the conference on late-medieval vestments at the Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg, in Textile History, XXXIX (1), May 2008; reviews of David King, The Stained Glass of St Peter Mancroft, and of Maria Hayward, Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII, in Journal of the British Archaeological Association, CLXI, 2008.

Jonathan Marsden: Sixteen catalogue entries and an essay: ‘The international taste for French bronzes’, in Bronzes français / Cast in Bronze (exh. cat.), Paris, 2008; ‘Wiedergefunden: das Portrait Herzog Wilhems V. von Bayern für sein Grabmal’ (with Dorothea Diemer), in Kunst Chronik, 62:4, April 2009.

Hugh Roberts: Forewords to: the reprint of the Catalogue of Indian Arms at Marlborough House, Cambridge, 2008; and Terence Camerer Cuss, The English Watch, 1585–1970: A Unique Alliance of Art, Design and Inventive Genius, Woodbridge, 2008.

Jennifer Scott: ‘Master strokes. Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish painting’, in NADFAS Review, autumn 2008.

Lucy Whitaker: Chapter 7 in Forty Years of Christ Church Picture Gallery: Still One of Oxford’s Best Kept Secrets (exh. cat.), ed. Jacqueline Thalmann, Oxford, 2008.

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ELECTRONIC ACCESS

Website and e-Gallery

During the year, four exhibitions were added to the e-Gallery: HRH The Prince of Wales: An Exhibition to Celebrate His Sixtieth Birthday, A State Banquet at Buckingham Palace, Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life. Additions were made to the existing web features for the exhibitions The Art of Italy and Amazing Rare Things. Web exhibitions accompanied the publication of Ancient and Modern Gems and Jewels in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen and the re-display of the newly conserved Holyrood Ordinal at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. The special displays at Buckingham Palace for the Healthcare reception in November 2008 and for the Mexican State Visit in March 2009 were also added to the website. The e-Gallery was made available to the Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, for the showing of Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting. Microsites were created for the online education pages. Digital access to the Royal Collection increased: there are now more than 5,600 items online, including more than 2,700 paintings and miniatures. All the e-Gallery exhibitions were presented on the kiosks at The Queen’s Galleries in London and Edinburgh and at the Drawings Gallery at Windsor Castle, and on the Royal Collection website. The website was further enhanced with the introduction of integrated real-time online ticketing in June 2008, a Picture Library download facility for researchers and academics in December 2008, and a new online shop in March 2009.

King George VI’s copy, in his own hand, of his letter to the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, on 2 June 1944, requesting him not to participate in Operation Overlord (the D-Day landings). Both men wished to witness this event, but there were strong objections to their doing so. The King had to write firmly to his Prime Minister when it seemed that the latter was determined to go. This document is included in the Royal Archives section of the British Monarchy website, re-launched in February 2009.

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ACCESSIONS AND ACQUISITIONS

To ensure that appropriate acquisitions are made when resources become available, to enhance the Collection and displays of exhibits for the public.

ROYAL LIBRARY

Three manuscripts, around 50 printed books and several sets of coins or medals were received as gifts. Two illuminated manuscripts were presented to The Queen by Sir Claude Hankes on the occasion of the Service of Thanksgiving to mark 660 years of the Order of the Garter, and the sixtieth anniversary of the installation as members of the Order of The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh. One manuscript, originally presented to Queen Elizabeth I in 1592 by William Dethick, Garter King of Arms, contains the arms of the Knights of the Garter appointed by Edward IV. The other contains those of the current members of the Order. The third manuscript is a poem, ‘The Queen’s Beasts’ by U.A. Fanthorpe, set to music by Martin Lessons as a commission for the Bolton Festival Choir and Orchestra to celebrate The Queen’s eightieth birthday. Coins and medals acquired include two proof sets, one in gold, of the 2008 currency coins, with the new reverse designs based on the Royal Arms, presented by the Royal Mint; and a specimen of a £5 coin commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the British Commonwealth, presented by the Commonwealth Mint and Philatelic Bureau. Gifts to The Queen during her State Visit to Turkey in May 2008 included a medal commemorating Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, presented by the President and Mrs Gül, and a copy of The Holy Qur’an, presented by the Imam of the Green Mosque in Bursa. On her State Visit to Slovakia in October 2008, The Queen received a replica of an 1847 British coin from the Prime Minister, an Encyclopaedia of Slovakia and the Slovaks from the Deputy Prime Minister, and a box of medals depicting Slovak castles from the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Queen was also given two specimens of the Canadian Victoria Cross, a new medal inaugurated in 2008, together with a special commemorative medallion. Among printed books received during the year were Miles Jebb’s Illustration in the third volume of The Lord-Lieutenants and their Deputies (London, 2007); histories of the South Polar Times, purchased in Magdalen and University Colleges, Oxford; Government of the Global February 2009. All three volumes of the South Polar Times will be included Village by Sir Daniel Williams, retiring Governor General of Grenada; in the Royal Collection’s Antarctic and a biography of Sir Hugh Worrell Springer, former Governor General exhibition, The Heart of the Great of Barbados, presented by his son. Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography, to be shown at A copy of the third volume of the South Polar Times, a facsimile of The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of the monthly newsletters of Scott’s Antarctic expedition, covering April to Holyroodhouse, from October 2009 to April 2010, and in London the November 1911, was purchased by The Queen to complete the Royal following year. Library’s set.

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Office of Sir Hugh Casson, Waterloo Chamber, Windsor Castle: scheme for redecoration, c.1974. Photostat with crayon, watercolour and gold paint. This design was one of a number from the studio of the late Sir Hugh Casson presented to The Queen by Sir Hugh Casson’s family in 2008.

PRINT ROOM

An archive of material (sketches, working drawings, correspondence, etc.) by Sir Hugh Casson and his firm, relating to projects at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and Sandringham House between 1956 and 1980, was presented by Sir Hugh Casson’s family. A copy of Derek Linstrum’s monograph on Sir Jeffry Wyatville, interleaved with original drawings by Wyatville, correspondence (historical and modern), etc., was presented by the family of Professor Linstrum. Six drawings from the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo (a razorbill; a spiny lobster; two citrons; liquorice; great knapweed), dispersed from the collection in the early twentieth century, were purchased by The Queen. A colour lithograph by Barbara Lloyd entitled The Coronation Coach, 1953, was purchased by The Queen.

ROYAL PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION

Gifts included an album of photographs of Lipizzaner horses presented to The Queen in the course of the State Visit to Slovenia and Slovakia, and five albums of photographs from The Queen’s State Visit to Turkey in May 2008. A photograph by Bert Hardy of Princess Elizabeth on her wedding day (reproduced here) was purchased.

ROYAL ARCHIVES

A group of letters to William, Duke of Clarence, principally from his family, 1772–1820s, was purchased. Among the gifts were a letter from John Baker, a naturalist who accompanied the Prince of Wales to Egypt in 1869 (gift of Dr Peter Baker); Journal of the Magic Circle, giving an account of The Prince of Wales’s visit to the Magic Circle in 1975 (gift of Mr Tim Reed); and a highly decorated programme for Their Majesties’ visit to Crewe in 1913 Bert Hardy, Princess Elizabeth arriving at Westminster Abbey with (gift of Mr Clifford Taylor). King George VI, on her wedding day, 1947. ©Getty Images.

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A selection of items from the range of china with armorial decoration introduced for the 2008 Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace.

TRADING ACTIVITIES

RETAIL

The Royal Collection’s retail activities finished the year exceeding targets by £400,000 (4.4 per cent) and the previous year by £347,000 (3.8 per cent). As visitor numbers were up 7,000 (0.4 per cent) on the previous year, this represents an increase in spend per visitor of 3.6 per cent. Most of this increase was driven by an excellent performance in all the London shops, but notably those at The Queen’s Gallery and in Buckingham Palace Road. These two locations benefited from increased numbers of overseas visitors in the second half of the year. Off-site business was, as anticipated, below that of the previous year. The wholesale business is beginning to benefit from the Royal Collection’s attendance at the Frankfurt Gift Fair, and the new online shop, launched in March 2009, is already producing an increase in sales through the website. Royalty payments are now coming through from the licensing arrangement with Designers Guild, which came into effect in 2008, and further partnerships are planned. Despite exchange-rate pressures, margins have remained at 59 per cent. It is anticipated, however, that significant cost-price increases will put this margin under some pressure in the year ahead.

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CATERING

Palace of Holyroodhouse

Catering sales at the Palace of Holyroodhouse were 13 per cent below the previous year, with 4.2 per cent fewer visitors and one less month’s trading. During the year, the decision was made to outsource the catering operation at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, and Charlton House was appointed to take over the management of the café from 1 March 2009. It is anticipated that this arrangement will best guarantee the café’s future growth and development.

Buckingham Palace

In 2008 a trial was undertaken to provide catering during the Summer Opening of the State Rooms. A small selection of light refreshments was served from a temporary structure in the garden, near the Palace shop. In spite of an extremely wet summer, over £200,000 of sales were achieved, and valuable lessons were learnt about delivering a high-quality offer in an extremely busy environment. This experience will guide decisions on future catering developments.

PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES

The sale of reproduction rights for the use of material in television programmes and publications continued to be the principal source of income for the Picture Library. In line with general practice, images may be downloaded without charge for academic and charitable use. More than 5,600 images are now available online (1,500 have been added in the year), and more images are added on a monthly basis. Major projects undertaken in the year have included new photography of the Crown Jewels for a forthcoming joint publication with Historic Royal Palaces, and photography of material for the following Royal Collection publications: For the Royal Table: Dining at the Palace; The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life; The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography; Queen & Commonwealth: The Royal Tour; and Victoria and Albert: Art and Love. Photography was also undertaken for the online exhibition accompanying the Henry VIII exhibition in the Drawings Gallery at Windsor Castle, and for the special displays for the Healthcare reception and for the State Visit of the President of the United Mexican States at Buckingham Palace. Photographic material was also supplied to the following for projects about Henry VIII: Historic Royal Palaces, the Royal Armouries, the British Library, Lion Hudson, Museum of Richmond, Constable and Robinson, Folio Society, HarperCollins, Gray Publishing, Random House, the Society of Antiquaries of London, Time Team, the BBC and Channel 4. The Picture Library once again exhibited at the Frankfurt and London Book Fairs and attended the Picture Buyers’ Fair.

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FINANCIAL OVERVIEW

Incoming Resources

The summarised financial statements set out on pages 41–2 indicate that the Royal Collection increased its incoming resources by £1,158,000 (3.8 per cent), from £30,284,000 in 2007–8 to £31,442,000 in 2008–9. This was achieved despite an overall increase in visitor numbers of only 7,000 (0.4 per cent), from 1,986,000 to 1,993,000. The growth in admissions income of £969,000, from £20,379,000 to £21,348,000, is therefore largely attributable to higher admission charges and changes in the visitor mix. Despite the small increase in visitor numbers, income from retail, catering and photographic services amounted to £9,620,000 (2007–8: £9,328,000), due largely to strong sales in The Queen’s Gallery shop at Buckingham Palace, which has benefited from the increase in visitors to the two exhibitions in 2008–9 and the growth in overseas visitors to London in the second half of the year.

Charitable Expenditure

Expenditure on charitable activities increased by £1,134,000 (5.7 per cent), from £20,045,000 in 2007–8 to £21,179,000 in 2008–9. The main component of charitable expenditure is staff costs (£8,609,000), which increased on average by 5.2 per cent in 2008–9.

Net Incoming Resources and Cash Flow

The Trust’s net incoming resources, before recognising the pension scheme actuarial loss of £2,500,000, amounted to £802,000 (2007–8: £1,519,000). Accordingly, net bank borrowings reduced by £0.7 million, from £5.7 million at 31 March 2008 to £5 million at 31 March 2009, thereby exceeding the Trust’s target of an annual reduction of at least £0.5 million.

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INCOME AND ADMISSION NUMBERS FOR THE YEAR

Admission numbers 2008–9 2007–8 2008–9 2007–8 £000 £000 000 000 Windsor Castle and Frogmore House – admissions 9,999 10,004 959 1,003 – shop sales 2,315 2,325 Buckingham Palace Summer Opening – admissions 5,657 4,952 394 360 – shop sales 1,972 1,997 The Queen’s Gallery – admissions 1,460 1,133 194 158 – shop sales 2,052 1,636 The Royal Mews – admissions 847 798 153 155 – shop sales 742 765 Clarence House – admissions 147 172 20 25 – shop sales 78 101 Palace of Holyroodhouse – admissions 2,115 2,174 273 285 – shop and café sales 1,128 1,241 Other retail income (including on-site) 1,186 991 Publishing 176 248 Photographic services 147 272 Gift Aid 1,123 1,146 Other income 298 329 31,442 30,284 1,993 1,986

FIVE-YEAR COMPARISON

2004–5 2005–6 2006–7 2007–8 2008–9 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 Admissions income (including Gift Aid) 14,651 15,935 19,814 20,379 21,348 Retail and café sales 7,341 7,683 9,151 9,056 9,473 Charitable expenditure 15,777 16,749 18,959 20,045 21,179 Net incoming/(outgoing) resources (before actuarial gain/(loss) recognised in pension scheme) (655) (451) 2,234 1,519 802 Capital expenditure 390 477 621 1,412 688 Visitor Performance Indicators Visitor numbers (000) 1,797 1,792 2,054 1,986 1,993 Admissions income per visitor £8.15 £8.89 £9.65 £10.26 £10.71 Retail spend per visitor (on-site only) £3.55 £3.61 £4.02 £4.17 £4.32

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SUMMARISED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

STATEMENT BY KPMG LLP TO THE ROYAL COLLECTION TRUST (‘THE CHARITY’)

We have examined the summarised financial statements set out on pages 41 to 42, which are contained within the charity’s non-statutory Annual Report (‘Annual Report’). The summarised financial statements are non-statutory accounts prepared for the purpose of inclusion in the Annual Report.

This statement is made, on terms that have been agreed with the charity, solely to the charity in order to meet the requirements of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice revised 2005. Our work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charity those matters we have agreed to state to it in such a statement and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity for our work, for this statement or for the opinions we have formed.

Respective Responsibilities of Trustees and A uditors

The Board of Trustees has accepted responsibility for the preparation of the summarised financial statements. Our responsibility is to report to the charity our opinion on the consistency of the summarised financial statements on pages 41 to 42 within the Annual Report with the statutory Annual Report and Accounts.

We also read the other information contained within the Annual Report and consider the implications for our report if we become aware of any apparent misstatements or material inconsistencies with the summarised financial statements.

Basis of Opinion

We conducted our work having regard to Bulletin 1999/6 The auditor’s statement on the summary financial statement issued by the Auditing Practices Board for use in the United Kingdom. Our separate report on the charity’s statutory Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2009 describes the basis of our statutory audit opinion on those Accounts.

Opinion

In our opinion, the summarised financial statements set out on pages 41 to 42 are consistent with the statutory Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2009. We have not considered the effects of any events between the date on which we signed our report on the full statutory Annual Report and Accounts 12 June 2009 and the date of this statement.

KPMG LLP Registered Auditor Chartered Accountants 8 Salisbury Square, London EC4Y 8BB

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SUMMARY CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES for the year ended 31 March 2009

2009 2008 £000 £000 INCOMING RESOURCES

Incoming resources from generated funds: Retail, catering and photographic services 9,620 9,328 Investment income 37 22 9,657 9,35 0

Incoming resources from charitable activities: Access 21,216 20,263 Presentation and interpretation 309 364 Conservation – 10 21,525 20,637 Other incoming resources: Other income 260 297

Total incoming resources 31,442 30,284

RESOURCES EXPENDED

Cost of generating funds: Retail, catering and photographic services 8,907 8,166

Charitable activities: Access 13,370 12,859 Presentation and interpretation 3,554 3,175 Exhibitions 2,200 2,069 Conservation 1,381 1,430 Custodial control 674 512 21,179 20,045

Governance costs 121 117

Other resources expended: Donation 333 337 Pensions finance charge 100 100 433 437

Total resources expended 30,640 28,765

Net incoming resources 802 1,519 Actuarial gain/(loss) recognised in pension scheme (2,500) 1,300 Net movement in funds (1,698) 2,819

Fund balances at 1 April 2008 11,810 8,991 Fund balances at 31 March 2009 10,112 11,810

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SUMMARY CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET as at 31 March 2009 2009 2008 £000 £000 Fixed assets Tangible assets 20,359 21,416

Current assets Stock and work in progress 1,821 1,445 Debtors 1,115 898 Cash at bank and in hand 252 293 3,188 2,636

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year (6,335) (7,442)

Net current liabilities (3,147) (4,806)

Total assets less current liabilities 17,212 16,610

Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year (3,000) (3,000)

Net assets excluding pension liability 14,212 13,610

Pension liability (4,100) (1,800) Net assets including pension liability 10,112 11,810

Income funds Restricted 497 516 Unrestricted 13,715 13,094

14,212 13,610 Pension reserve (4,100) (1,800)

Total funds 10,112 11,810

These are not statutory accounts, but a summary of information relating to both the Statement of Financial Activities and the Balance Sheet. They may not contain sufficient information to allow for a full understanding of the financial affairs of the charity. For further information, the full annual statutory accounts, the Auditor’s report on those accounts and the Trustees’ Annual Report should be consulted. Copies of these can be obtained from the Director of the Royal Collection, York House, St James’s Palace, London SW1A 1BQ.

The annual statutory accounts were approved on 12 June 2009 and have been delivered to the Charity Commission and the Registrar of Companies. The accounts have been audited by a qualified auditor, KPMG LLP, who gave an audit opinion which was unqualified and did not include a statement required under section 237 (2) and (3) of the Companies Act 1985.

The summary financial statements of the Royal Collection Trust were approved by the Trustees on 12 June 2009 and were signed on their behalf by:

Mr Peter Troughton Tr u s t e e Sir Alan Reid Trustee

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EXHIBITIONS AND LOANS

ROYAL COLLECTION EXHIBITIONS

The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery 14 March – 28 September 2008 129 drawings, prints and watercolours 2 books 1 map

Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting 17 October 2008 – 26 April 2009 51 paintings

The Ballroom, Buckingham Palace For the Royal Table: A State Banquet at Buckingham Palace 29 July – 29 September 2008 Hans Holbein the Younger, Nicholas Bourbon, 1535. A selection of more than 2,000 pieces of This drawing is included in the Royal Collection’s silver gilt and porcelain Henry VIII exhibition in the Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle (until April 2010), with a number of portraits of the King and members of his family and court, as well The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse as books, manuscripts and other objects. The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection: The Renaissance The Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle 25 April – 26 October 2008 HRH The Prince of Wales: An Exhibition to 34 paintings Celebrate His Sixtieth Birthday 42 drawings 16 May 2008 – 22 February 2009 9 books 106 exhibits (the Investiture Coronet, photographs, books, drawings and gifts) The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection: The Baroque Treasures from the Royal Library 13 November 2008 – 8 March 2009 16 May – 18 September 2008 – 22 February 2009 31 paintings Two selections containing 15 and 13 drawings 43 drawings and watercolours 8 books Henry VIII: A 500th Anniversary Exhibition The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life 8 April 2009 – 18 April 2010 27 March – 20 September 2009 55 exhibits (drawings, prints, books, 36 paintings miniatures and objects, including a hunting sword, hat badge and coin)

Treasures from the Royal Library 8 April – September 2009 14 drawings and watercolours

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COMBINED LOANS TO EXTERNAL EXHIBITIONS

Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin Canaletto e Bellotto: L’arte della veduta 13 March – 15 June 2008 2 paintings and 17 drawings by Canaletto 3 drawings by Bellotto

Powysland Museum, Welshpool Queen Alexandra 1 May – 30 September 2008 2 fans 2 watercolours by Robert Dudley 1 drawing by John Henry Bacon 1 sketchbook by Queen Alexandra 4 photographs by Queen Alexandra 1 photograph possibly by Mayall 1 photograph by Mayall Covered dish with stand and a pair of square plates from the Flora Danica Service Teacup and saucer and two small plates with photographs by Queen Alexandra 2 pieces of Fabergé The Chinese Drummer Boy clock purchased by George IV c.1785, lent to Brighton Museum and Art Gallery in 2008. Brighton Museum and Art Gallery Chinese Whispers: Chinoiserie in Britain, 1650–1930 3 May – 2 November 2008 Touring Exhibitions 1 painting by Richard Jack 2 drawings by William Delamotte Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, Stirling Smith 1 watercolour by Paul Sandby and Thomas Sandby Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling, National 1 print by John Haynes Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Manchester The Kylin clock Art Gallery Chinese Drummer Boy clock (illustrated above) Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci: Porcelain pagoda An Exhibition to Celebrate the Sixtieth Birthday Pier table with Chinese caryatid figures of HRH The Prince of Wales by Adam Weisweiler 10 May – 26 July 2008 Armchair by François Hervé 8 August – 2 November 2008 Pair of Chinese vases 8 November 2008 – 7 February 2009 Pair of Sèvres porcelain black-ground vases 14 February – 4 May 2009 Chinese porringer, cover and stand 10 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture Brussels 5 August – 26 October 2008 Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting 1 painting by Sir Anthony Van Dyck 16 May – 21 September 2008 5 drawings by Gian Lorenzo Bernini 51 paintings

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Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura 1 photograph by Roger Fenton Andrea Palladio, Vicenza, and Royal Academy, 1 album of photographs attributed to London Robert Howlett and Joseph Cundall Andrea Palladio 1 letter and 1 record from the Royal Archives 20 September 2008 – 6 January 2009 31 January – 13 April 2009 Tate Britain, London 1 painting by Canaletto Van Dyck and Britain 1 drawing by Canaletto (London only) 18 February – 17 May 2009 6 paintings by Sir Anthony Van Dyck Galleria Nazionale di Parma 1 painting by Daniel Mytens Correggio 2 miniatures by Samuel Cooper 20 September 2008 – 25 January 2009 1 miniature by John Hoskins 2 paintings and 3 drawings by Correggio 1 miniature by David des Granges 1 print by Richard Gaywood Château de Compiègne Napoléon III et Victoria 3 October 2008 – 19 January 2009 1 painting by J.L.E. Meissonier SECTION LOANS TO 5 paintings by Charles-Louis Müller EXTERNAL EXHIBITIONS 1 painting by E.M. Ward Charger with portrait of the Empress Eugénie Jewelled bouquet holder Paintings 1 watercolour by Adolphe-Jean-Baptiste Bayot 1 watercolour by Max Berthelin Royal Academy of Arts, London 1 watercolour by Sir Oswald Walters Brierly Lucas Cranach 1 watercolour by Victor Chavet 8 March – 8 June 2008 1 watercolour by Ernest Coquart 1 painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder 1 watercolour by William Corden the Younger 1 watercolour by Jean-Baptiste-Fortuné Fournier Tate Britain, London 1 watercolour by François-Louis Français The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting 1 watercolour by Karl Girardet 4 June – 31 August 2008 1 watercolour by Louis Hague, after James Roberts 1 painting by Sir David Wilkie 2 watercolours by Eugène Lami 1 watercolour by Joseph Nash Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 1 watercolour by James Roberts Painting Family: The De Brays, Master Painters 2 watercolours by George H. Thomas of Seventeenth-century Holland 1 drawing by Queen Victoria 9 July – 5 October 2008 1 watercolour by William Wyld 1 painting by Jan de Bray 1 fan Musée du Louvre, Paris National Gallery, London Mantegna 1431–1506 The Renaissance Portrait 22 September 2008 – 5 January 2009 15 October 2008 – 18 January 2009 1 painting by Andrea Mantegna 1 painting by Lorenzo Lotto 1 painting by Bernardo Parentino 1 terracotta bust by Guido Mazzoni 1 drawing by Hans Holbein the Younger Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschicht, Münster The Wellcome Trust, London Destinations of Desire: Artists on the Road War and Medicine 28 September 2008 – 11 January 2009 21 November 2008 – 15 February 2009 1 painting by Dürer

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Musée National de la Renaissance, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth Château d’Ecouen Traditional Welsh Costume, 1780–1980 Marie Stuart: Le destin français d’une Reine d’Ecosse 21 June – 4 October 2008 15 October 2008 – 2 February 2009 Doll in Welsh costume 1 painting and 1 miniature by François Clouet National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork Art Deco, 1910–1939 Daniel Maclise: Romancing the Past 28 June – 5 October 2008 24 October 2008 – 14 February 2009 Engraved glass by E.H. Hald 1 painting by Daniel Maclise Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Foundling Museum, London Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure Handel the Philanthropist from the Palaces of Europe 16 January – 28 June 2009 1 July – 21 September 2008 1 miniature by G.A. Wolfgang the Younger Commode by Martin Carlin Commode by Adam Weisweiler Yale Center for British Art, New Haven ‘Endless Forms’: Charles Darwin, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden Natural Science and the Visual Arts 2º das Wetter, der Mensch und sein Klima 12 February – 3 May 2009 11 July 2008 – 19 April 2009 1 painting by Sir Edwin Landseer Umbrella

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, and Palace Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco Rivals in Renaissance Venice Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique 15 March – 19 July 2009 19 October 2008 – 19 January 2009 1 painting by Jacopo Tintoretto 14 February – 31 May 2009 Cigarette case by Fabergé (illustrated below) Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt Pair of silver and glass decanters by Fabergé The Haydn Phenomenon – Eisenstadt: Venue of Musical World Literature 31 March – 11 November 2009 1 painting by John Hoppner

Works of Art

Imperial War Museum, London For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond 17 April 2008 – 1 March 2009 Model Aston Martin car

Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Musée du Louvre, Paris, and Metropolitan Halifax, Nova Scotia Museum of Art, New York The Siege of Louisbourg, 1758 Bronzes français: De la Renaissance au siècle des 1 June – 2 November 2008 Lumières / Cast in bronze: French Sculpture from Cloak worn by General Wolfe Renaissance to Revolution 20 October 2008 – 19 January 2009 24 February – 24 May 2009 1 bronze by Germain Pilon

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4 bronzes by Philippe Bertrand Henry Moore Institute, Leeds 1 bronze by François Dumont Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts 1 bronze by Martin Desjardins 2 October 2008 – 4 January 2009 1 bronze by Sébastien Slodtz 2 drawings by Ciro Ferri 1 bronze by Jacques Coustou 1 drawing by Giovanni Paolo Schor 1 bronze by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne 1 bronze by Claude Vassé (Paris only) Groeninge Museum, Bruges 2 bronzes by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (Paris only) Stradanus (1523–1607), Hofkunstenaar 2 anonymous bronzes (Paris only) van de Medici 1 bronze by François Girardon (New York only) 9 October 2008 – 4 January 2009 6 drawings by Giovanni Stradanus Museum Rietberg, Zurich Shiva Nataraja Fan Museum, Greenwich 16 November 2008 – 1 March 2009 Sleeping Beauties: The Fan Collection from Bronze figure of Parvati Castle Friedenstein, Gotha 4 November 2008 – 18 January 2009 Goldsmith’s Company, London 1 baton fan, French School Silver with a Pinch of Salt 1 folding fan, Dutch School 30 March – 25 April 2009 One crab salt and spoon by Nicholas Sprimont Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam One salt by Digby Scott and Benjamin Smith Erasmus im Beeld 8 November 2008 – 8 February 2009 1 drawing by Hans Holbein the Younger Print Room National Gallery of Art, Ottawa The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture Maps: Finding Our Place in the World 28 November 2008 – 8 March 2009 14 March – 8 June 2008 5 drawings by Gian Lorenzo Bernini 3 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci Palazzo Ducale, Lucca Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid Pompeo Batoni El retrato del Renacimiento 6 December 2008 – 3 May 2009 3 June – 7 September 2008 1 drawing by Pompeo Batoni 1 drawing by Parmigianino

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Royal Library Maria Sibylla Merian and Daughters: Women of Art and Science Captain Cook Birthplace Museum, 10 June – 31 August 2008 Middlesbrough 16 watercolours by Maria Sibylla Merian The Many Faces of Cook 17 June 2008 – 4 January 2009 Kulturforum am Potsdamer Platz, Berlin 1 medal of Captain Cook by Lewis Pingo Sebastiano del Piombo 26 June – 28 September 2008 1 drawing by Sebastiano del Piombo Royal Photograph Collection

Nottingham Castle Museum National Media Museum, Bradford Laura Knight at the Theatre Baby: Picturing the Ideal Human 19 July – 28 September 2008 13 February – 19 April 2009 1 watercolour by Dame Laura Knight 1 photograph by W. & D. Downey

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STAFF OF THE ROYAL COLLECTION

EXTERNAL APPOINTMENTS Chatsworth House Conservation Advisory Panel; Governor of the British Institute of Florence. Shaun Turner: Lecturer in Woodwork and Frame- Robert Ball: Member of the Executive Committee of making at the Mary Ward Centre; Lecturer in the National Benevolent Society of Watch and Clock Woodworking at Hammersmith Community College. Makers; Member of the Council, British Watch and Clock Makers Guild; Trustee of the British Horological David Wheeler: External examiner for MA in Historic Institute Museum Trust. Object Conservation, University of Lincoln. Martin Clayton: Member of the Ente Raccolta Bridget Wright: Honorary Editor of the Annual Report Vinciana. of the Society of the Friends of St George’s and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter. Paul Cradock: Member of the Executive Committee of the National Benevolent Society of Watch and Clock Makers; Secretary of the British Watch and Clock Makers Guild; Trustee of the British Horological Institute Museum Trust (until June 2008). STAFF TRAINING AND Allison Derrett: Representative of the Historic Houses DEVELOPMENT Archivists’ Group of the British Records Association. Alan Donnithorne: Visiting Professor at Camberwell Staff from all sections of the Royal Collection College of Arts (University of the Arts London). undertake an average of two to three days’ training Kate Heard: Deputy Editor, Journal of the History of each year. The training needs of individuals are Collections; Member of the UK Print Curators’ Forum. generally identified as part of the performance Kathryn Jones: Member of the Committee of the Silver development review process, but training is also linked Society. to specific curatorial, conservation or visitor service requirements or initiatives. Examples of this include Jonathan Marsden: Trustee of the Art Fund, the IT training, Health and Safety and first aid courses, Household Cavalry Museum Trust, the Royal Yacht exhibition familiarisation talks and curator-led tours Britannia Trust and the City & Guilds of London Art of the State Apartments, guided tour training, salvage School; Member of the Collections Committee, Royal training and the development of management skills College of Music; Hon. Editorial Secretary, Furniture (e.g. public speaking and project management courses). History Society. As in previous years, conservators took part in training Simon Metcalf: Member of the Conservation sessions for the Master of the Household’s staff in Committee, Church Buildings Council. the safe handling and cleaning of works of art. Specific Hugh Roberts: Chairman of the Arts Panel, National examples of training undertaken in the year include Trust; Member of Council, Attingham Trust; Trustee the following: of the Historic Royal Palaces Trust, the Harewood • The Senior Furniture Conservator spent six weeks House Trust, the Cobbe Collection Trust and the Great attached to the conservation staff of the J. Paul Steward of Scotland’s Dumfries House Trust; Member Getty Museum, Los Angeles. of the St George’s Chapel Windsor Fabric Advisory Committee; Chairman of the Chatsworth House • Works of Art conservators attended the biennial Conservation Advisory Panel; Trustee and Governor Furniture and Wood Conservation Seminar in of the Friends of the Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Amsterdam. Brighton Museums. • Staff of the Pictures section have attended events Jane Roberts: Member of the Ente Raccolta Vinciana, organised by Tate Britain, the National Portrait the Editorial Advisory Board of the Master Drawings Gallery, the National Gallery and the Prado, Madrid. Association, the Roxburghe Club, the Council of • Pictures conservators attended the Mactaggart Management of the Windsor Festival, and the microscopy and pigment analysis course.

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• Staff of the Royal Library, Print Room and Royal the Library and Print Room, 1 student on a three- Archives attended events organised by the British month placement in the Print Room, 1 student on a Library, the Bibliographical Society, the National two-week placement from an MA course in Library Portrait Gallery, the Courtauld Institute, the and Information Studies at University College London, Institute of Conservation, the Society of Bookbinders, and 3 (4) Paper Conservation students on a two-week the British Records Association and the Society of placement from Camberwell College of Arts, University Archivists. of the Arts London. A team of 7 (8) volunteers was recruited for the refurbishment of books at Buckingham • Wardens at The Queen’s Galleries in London and Edinburgh undertook verbal-description training. Palace during August. All Visitor Services and Specialist Sales staff in Royal Photograph Collection had 2 (2) permanent Ticket Sales and Information undertook disability- full-time staff throughout the year, assisted by 1 (1) awareness training. long-term volunteer, 1 intern from Sotheby’s Institute of Art on a five-month placement, 1 (1) intern from • Wardens and Retail Assistants attained NVQs at level 2 in Heritage Services and Retail Operations the University of Leicester Museum Studies course respectively. Ticket Sales and Information Assistants on a two-month placement, and 1 (1) student on a attained NVQs at level 2 in Customer Service, and short-term summer placement. members of the Supervisor team achieved the BTEC Royal Archives had 5 (5) permanent full-time and qualification in Contact Centre Management. 2 (2) part-time staff throughout the year, and 1 (1) full-time temporary Archivist providing maternity leave • Wardens from Windsor visited Hampton Court in preparation for the exhibition about Henry VIII at cover, plus the full-time services of 2 (2) members of the Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle. the Paper Conservation team. The contract of the additional Archivist was extended for a further 15 • Ticket Sales and Information Assistants undertook months, until August 2009, to cover a maternity leave familiarisation visits to all sites for which ticketing absence. In addition, 1 (1) part-time volunteer Records services are provided, including Dumfries House. Assistant and 3 (2) part-time volunteers assisted the • Among the training undertaken by members of Archivists. the Marketing team were courses on e-marketing, Collections Information Section had 12 (11) full-time podcasting and search-engine optimisation. and 1 (1) part-time members of staff. The Press team attended a number of Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) courses, and Visitor Services Staff, which includes wardens, retail Kathryn Cecil achieved the CIPR Diploma in and visitor management, had the following full-time Public Relations. equivalents: Windsor Castle 137 (132) Buckingham Palace and Clarence House 151 (141) Palace of Holyroodhouse 58 (54) The Royal Collection’s Central Departments STAFF NUMBERS had the following full-time equivalents of staff: (2007–8 numbers in brackets) Central Retail and Warehousing 17 (16) Public Relations and Marketing 8 (7) Pictures Section had 11 (9) full-time and 4 (5) part- Publishing 2 (2) time staff. Education 6 (7) Photographic Services 8 (8) Works of Art Section had 16 (15) full-time and 1 (2) Finance 13 (13) part-time members of staff. IT 3 (3) Royal Library and Print Room (which includes the Paper Conservation section, the Exhibitions section, the Assistant Curator at the Palace of Holyroodhouse and the Dal Pozzo Project Co-ordinator) had 20 (20) permanent full-time staff, 3 (3) permanent part-time staff and 1 (1) temporary employee providing maternity cover during the course of the year. Their work was aided by the services of 4 (4) long-term volunteers in

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STAFF LIST as at 31 March 2009

DIRECTORATE Cashier Conservators Miss Jane Hayman Mrs Karen Ashworth, MVO Director of the Royal Collection Al Brewer Sir Hugh Roberts, KCVO, FSA Purchase Ledger Manager Mrs Claire Chorley Mrs Jacqui Timony Mrs Adelaide Izat (maternity leave) Assistant to the Director Mrs Rosanna de Sancha Mrs Caroline de Guitaut, MVO Purchase Ledger Supervisor Miss Tabitha Teuma (maternity cover) Mrs Dorothy Wong Administrator and Assistant Framing and Exhibitions Conservator to the Surveyors Purchase Ledger Assistants Michael Field, MVO David Rankin-Hunt, LVO, MBE, TD Steven Day Miss Paula Watson Framing and Exhibitions Technician Secretary/Receptionist Miss Stephanie Carlton Miss Georgina Asplin Head of Management Information, Financial Planning and Reporting Paintings Conservation Administrator Superintendent of the Royal Collection, Ms Jane Graham, ACA Mrs Nicola Swash Hardie Hampton Court Palace Christopher Stevens Senior Management Accountant Mrs Tiemei Xing WORKS OF ART Custodian of California Gardens Store, Windsor Management Accountant Surveyor of The Queen’s Works of Art Anthony Barrett, RVM Peter Gates Sir Hugh Roberts, KCVO, FSA

Assistant Custodian Systems Accountant Deputy Surveyor of The Queen’s Arthur Pottinger Louis du Preez Works of Art Jonathan Marsden, LVO, FSA

FINANCE PICTURES Assistant Curator and Loans Officer (Works of Art) (Staff from the Royal Household Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures Mrs Caroline de Guitaut, MVO Finance Section who support the Desmond Shawe-Taylor Royal Collection) Assistant Curator (Works of Art) Assistant to the Surveyor of Mrs Kathryn Jones Finance Director The Queen’s Pictures Michael Stevens, CVO, FCA Mrs Janice Sacher Assistant to the Deputy Surveyor of The Queen’s Works of Art Financial Controller Assistant Surveyor of David Oakey Mrs Indra Jutlla, FCCA The Queen’s Pictures Miss Lucy Whitaker, MVO Assistant Curator (Works of Art) Deputy Financial Controller Miss Joanna Gwilt Ms Virginia Bush, ACA Assistant Curator (Pictures) Mrs Vanessa Remington Senior Furniture Conservator Financial Accountant (maternity cover) David Wheeler, MVO Miss Jenna Buttress Mrs Anna Reynolds (maternity leave) Furniture Conservators Credit Controller Assistant Curator and Loans Officer Richard Thompson, MVO, JP Miss Juliette Wall, MAAT (Pictures) Shaun Turner Miss Jennifer Scott Mrs Jane Wallis Sales Ledger Assistant Miss Carole Cregan Senior Paintings Conservator Senior Gilding Conservator Miss Nicola Christie Stephen Sheasby

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Gilding Conservators Exhibition Project Co-ordinator ROYAL ARCHIVES Peregrine Bruce-Mitford Stephen Weber Miss Elizabeth Parker Registrar Loans Officer (Royal Library) Miss Pamela Clark, LVO Armourer and Senior Metalwork and Exhibitions Secretary Conservator Miss Sarah Murray Deputy Registrar Simon Metcalf Mrs Jill Kelsey, MVO Exhibition Project and Senior Horological Conservator Administrative Assistant Assistant Registrars (Buckingham Palace) Miss Hayley Andrew Mrs Julie Crocker (maternity leave) Robert Ball, MVO Miss Allison Derrett, MVO Dal Pozzo Project Co-ordinator Miss Laura Hobbs (maternity cover) Horological Conservator Miss Panorea Alexandratos (Buckingham Palace) Office Administrator Paul Cradock, MVO Head of Paper Conservation Mrs Angeline Barker Alan Donnithorne, MVO Horological Conservator Archives Assistant (Windsor Castle) Head of Book Conservation Mrs Lynette Beech Steven Davidson Roderick Lane, MVO, RVM Archives Attendant Deputy Head of Book Conservation Mrs Joan Taylor THE ROYAL LIBRARY AND Miss Irene Campden PRINT ROOM Drawings Conservator ROYAL COLLECTION DATABASE Librarian and Curator of Julian Clare, RVM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY the Print Room The Hon. Lady Roberts, CVO, FSA Exhibitions and Maintenance Head of Collections Information Conservator Management Secretary to the Librarian and Office David Westwood, MVO, RVM Stephen Patterson, LVO Administrator Mrs Margaret Westwood Paper Conservator Inventory Clerk (Buckingham Palace) Mrs Megan Gent, MVO, RVM Miss Melanie Edwards Bibliographer Miss Bridget Wright, LVO Archives Bookbinder Inventory Clerk (Windsor Castle) Mrs Philippa Jones Miss Alexandra Barbour Assistant Bibliographer Mrs Emma Stuart, MVO Conservation Mounter Senior Database Cataloguer (Paintings) Mrs Kathryn Stone Miss Alex Buck Deputy Curator of the Print Room Martin Clayton, MVO General and Workshop Assistant Database Cataloguers (Works of Art) Martin Gray Miss Julia Bagguley Assistant Curator Miss Beth Clackett Miss Kate Heard, FSA ROYAL PHOTOGRAPH Database Indexer Print Room Assistant COLLECTION Paul Carter Miss Lauren Porter (maternity cover) Mrs Rhian Wong (maternity leave) Curator of the Royal Photograph Database Cataloguer Collection (Prints and Drawings) Print Room Secretary Miss Sophie Gordon Allan Chinn and Administrator Mrs Jean Cozens Assistant Curator of the Royal Database Cataloguer (Photographs) Photograph Collection Paul Stonell Head of Exhibitions Mrs Lisa Heighway Miss Theresa-Mary Morton, LVO Database Cataloguer (Photographs and Pictures) Alessandro Nasini

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Database Cataloguer RETAIL AND WAREHOUSING Picture Library Assistants Mrs Siân Cooksey Miss Katie Holyoak Retail Director Miss Louise Oliver Database Cataloguer (Holyroodhouse) Mrs Nuala McGourty, LVO Steven Blench Digital Imager Head of Design Daniel Partridge IT Projects and Business Process Miss Katrina Munro, MVO Manager Senior Photographers Paul Miller Production Controller Stephen Chapman, MVO Ian Grant Mrs Eva Zielinska-Millar, MVO Systems Development Officers James Smith Senior Buyer Photographer Tim Stocker Mrs Charlotte Burton Dominic Brown

Buyer PUBLISHING Johan Verbruggen PUBLIC RELATIONS AND MARKETING Publisher Project Manager – Retail Systems Mrs Jacky Colliss Harvey Miss Charlotte Carter Director of Communications and Business Development Commissioning Editor and Managing Merchandisers Miss Frances Dunkels, LVO Editor, Dal Pozzo Project Miss Nicole Goodchild Miss Kate Owen, FSA Miss Lei Song Administrator to the Director of Communications and Business Publishing Assistant Retail Co-ordinator Development Mrs Debbie Bogard (special leave) Miss Lucinda Gooch, MVO Henry Dawe Miss Sabrina Mackenzie (special leave cover) Retail Operations Administrator Business Development Manager Miss Jacqueline Bowden Miss Susanna Mann

EDUCATION Warehouse Manager Press and Public Relations Officers James Hoyle Miss Kathryn Cecil Head of Education Miss Emma Shaw (maternity leave) Mrs Marion McAuley Warehouse Administrator Miss Rachel Woollen (maternity cover) Roger Freeman Senior Education Manager Assistant Sales and Marketing Officer Miss Amy Watsham Assistant Warehouse Administrator Miss Rhiannon Marsh Miss Emma Wood Education Manager, Windsor Castle Web and Marketing Assistant Mrs Penelope Russell Warehouse Operatives Mrs Anna Lucas Bernard Barfield Education Co-ordinator, Windsor Castle Trevor Cline Press and Public Relations Assistant Mrs Catherine Martin Patrick Donegan Miss Emma Wylde Mrs Rossana Earles Education Manager, James Hall Palace of Holyroodhouse Nicholas Schulmann TICKET SALES AND Miss Alison Campbell INFORMATION

Education Manager, Buckingham Palace PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES Head of Ticketing and Sales Miss Karly Allen Mark Fisher Head of Photographic Services Miss Shruti Patel Contact Centre Manager Kevin Foster Senior Picture Library Assistant Miss Karen Lawson Specialist Sales Supervisor Miss Janice Galvin

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Operations Supervisor VISITOR SERVICES Martin Sumner Miss Lucy Allen Miss Jessica Weightman Director of Visitor Services Keith Waye Technical Support Supervisor Miss Kerry Bishop, MVO Gareth Thomas Wardens – Seasonal Administrator to the Director Mrs Janis Aunon Staffing and Development of Visitor Services John Brown Supervisor Henry Dawe Mrs Janet Burrell Mrs Prakuti Deolia Miss Amanda Burrows Mrs Federica Callegari Contact Centre Supervisor BUCKINGHAM PALACE, Mrs Ursula Claxton James Healey THE QUEEN’S GALLERY Mrs Henrietta Craddy AND THE ROYAL MEWS Ms Jill Davis, MBE Administrator and Staff Co-ordinator Ms Lynne Denham Miss Elizabeth Grogan Visitor Manager Stephen Denham Miss Helen Franklin Miss Amanda Derby Education Bookings Co-ordinator Mrs Sandra Dwelly Miss Joanne Lusher Operations Manager Leonard Franklin Miss Claire Johnson Mrs Susannah Geary Ticket Sales and Information Alan Lion Assistants Visitor Office Administrator Miss Karolina McLachlan Scott Bowman Miss Amanda Jacobs Clive Mills Ross Clark Miss Sarah Perry Miss Elena Donnarumma Staff Co-ordinator Simon Piercy Miss Nicola Jones Samuel Faure Ackroyd Mrs Valerie Ross Miss Yvonne Kemevor Mrs Alexandra Sills Miss Audrey Lawrence Visitor Office Assistant Liam Sims Miss Rachael Marsh Miss Grace Swanborough Miss Elizabeth Spencer Miss Lucy Ward Mrs Pam Tebbs Senior Wardens Miss Sophie Ware Ticket Sales and Information Clive Bayard Glenn Webb Assistants – Casual Mrs Mary Money Mark Wright Mehraj Ahmed Miss Connie Roche Anil Banga Wardens – Casual Mrs Rina Bhudia Supervising Warden, George Banham Miss Rachel Brookes The Royal Mews Matthew Caro Miss Olivia Davies Ernie Kingston Bob Castledine Miss Mariam El-sraidi David Charleston Miss Laura Grant Wardens Mrs Barbara Donne Miss Leila Haddou Ms Marie Barenskie Mrs Peggy Duffin Hasnain Kakal Mrs Elspeth Bayley Mrs Sheila Edgar Eric Lofty Mrs Marilyn Carpenter Ms Juan Edwards Miss Jo-Anne Mead Ms Gisele Deliege Miss Christine Erne Miss Barbara Neofitou Miss Pamela Eden Vernon Goodwin Miss Jade Nicholls Mrs Catherine Fyfield John Leeds Miss Fiona Otika Miss Carolyn Glover Mrs Margaret Legg Lee Preston Miss Louise Halfpenny Miss Maureen Maron Miss Katherine Pursey Martin Harris George Martin Miss Victoria Riley Mrs Beverley Hemsley Brian McBride Mrs Anna Roman Mrs Fiona Kuznetsova Michael Nash Edward Tokely Stephen Kyte Miss Margie Nolan Miss Leanne Ward Miss Ilenia Martini Miss Heather Pettit Miss Mengnan Zhang Tim Matthews Mrs Anna Thomas Alan Nurse Miss Nikki Williams Ralph Pottinger Dr Shalini Punjani

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Retail Manager Financial Administrator Mark Lines Mrs Virginia Green (maternity leave) Roger Freeman Mrs Jane McKenzie Miss Monika Mroz Deputy Retail Manager Weekend and Relief Cashiers Mrs Sandra Ridgley Andrew Fairmaner Mrs Valerie Bullett Alexander Smith Mrs Huai Fiona Yan Ravi Sohanpal Assistant Retail Managers Miss Aldona Stosik Miss Lucy Henzell-Thomas Staff Operations Administrator Mrs Kathleen Temple Miss Beatriz Ramirez Mrs Clare Barnes Miss Faye Wichelow Mark Randall Mrs Bernadette Woolley Visitor Operations Administrator Mrs Huai Fiona Yan Senior Retail Assistant Miss Alison Hodgkiss Miss Diana Rakhimova Visitor Services Assistants – Casual Staff Co-ordinator Brian Atkinson Retail Assistants Miss Emma Featherstone Miss Nathalie Bikoro Douglas Bell Miss Ceri Brough Miss Alyssa Boomgarden Visitor Office Assistant Mrs Valerie Bullett Mrs Lieselotte Burdorf-Cook Mrs Helena Holden Mrs Marlene Hawkins Mrs Sheila Clements Mrs Janet Maxwell Ryan Didcock Assistant Retail Manager Mrs Rosemary Osgood, RVM Kevin Dimmock Mrs Susan Asbery Mrs Marit Stokes Miss Claire Fears Mrs Marjorie Wise Mrs Khushpreet Gulshan Retail Supervisor Miss Amanda-Esther Idowu Miss Hanna Cross Cleaner Ms Amy Johnston Jonathan Taylor Miss Charlene Lorigan Ticket Sales Supervisors Chun Hoe Lum Miss Jane Denman Cleaner – Casual Mrs Claire McDougall Mrs Yvonne Owuor Brian Jacobs Mrs Fiona Moore Neil Vaughan Charles Nicholls Senior Wardens Miss Allyson Otoo Senior Retail Assistant Ms Susan Ashby Craig Pryor Mrs Anne McGowan Mrs Claude-Sabine Bikoro Miss Juno Rae Mrs Caroline Sara Mrs Patricia Sweetland Senior Ticket Sales Assistant Jeffrey Wilson Miss Mitchie Wake Mrs Shirlee Pouncett Miss Amani Waldron-Isioye Deputy Senior Wardens Miss Rachael Wardrop Retail Assistant Peter Girtley Mrs Kathleen Gomm Mrs Carla Weston Retail Assistants – Casual Mrs Penny Dalziel-Smith Visitor Services Assistants Wardens Ms Helen Hollis Mrs Linda Bacon Colin Adams James Ball Colin Ailes Miss Gemma Buckner Mrs Maria Axelson WINDSOR CASTLE Mrs Janet Cary Gerald Bailey Mrs Shirley Davis Marcus Barton Visitor Manager Brian Deenihan Mrs Prunella Beesley Mrs Christine Taylor Mrs Yvonne Edwards Mrs Ellen Bolick Miss Kathryn Freeman Mrs Danitza Bowers Retail and Display Manager Mrs Brenda Gardner Michael Campbell Miss Jacqueline Clarke Mrs Ludmila Guze Miss Jacqueline Clemson Rory Halliday Mrs Janet Cole Operations Manager Mrs Olga Horlock Mrs Ellen Compton-Williams John Phillips Mrs Patrizia Knight Mrs Sheila Cook Mrs Kay Leach Mrs Patricia Curtis Admissions Manager Miss Gemma Lee John Driscoll Richard Sugg Mrs Aileen Lewis Stanley Edwards

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Miss Adele Fellows Dilware Ullah Miss Enda McArdle Richard Garratt Mrs Anna Wallas Mrs Patricia McGill Anthony Golding Barry Ward, RVM Ian Mumford Barry Gould Robert Webster Geoffrey Murray Mrs Carol Greenhow Miss Rebecca Welch Mrs Pearl Nodwell Mrs Sarah Gunton Mrs Susan Wells Bryan Percy James Harris Peter Wilkinson Mrs Patricia Pipe Charles Hartley Joseph Wood Frank Poole Miss Sophie Haynes David Woodall Malcolm Potter Mrs Irene Hilsdon Peter Woodall Martin Potter Mrs Susan Hiscock Derek Woodman Robert Queen Richard Hisee Geoffrey Woodruff Kenneth Read Mrs Lorna Holliday Miss Leanne Workman Rodney Richardson Mrs Rita Horner Mrs Helen Zacks Ms Molly Rudge Miss Samantha Horsman René Schurtenberger Philip Howarth-Jarratt Wardens – Casual Roger Taoka-Thompson Mrs Christine Hughes Robert Atcheson Hugh Tomlinson Peter Humphrey Dennis Benford Bert Turner Mrs Catherine Ingham Ricardo Bessford Mrs Janet Waters Gary Langford Maurice Bevis Anthony Wise Paul Leighton David Buttimer Ronald Wise Miss Helen Lincoln Leonard Chandler Mrs Patricia Wright Michael Macaskill John Clayton David Mason Peter Cockbain Mrs Freda Mason Geoffrey Cox PALACE OF HOLYROODHOUSE Miss Anne Meyer Mrs Angela Cripps Mrs Sandra Mills Kevin Cronin Superintendent Miss Bina Modi Malcolm Davis Geoffrey Mackrell Ms Giulia Ovidi Mrs Caroline Dewell Mrs Elizabeth Pantia John Dexter Visitor Operations Manager Christopher Phillips Paul Dunham Mrs Kirsty McNiece Mrs Roberta José Phillips Brian Dupe Edward Pink David Emerson Assistant Curator Nicholas Preston Henry Everist Mrs Deborah Clarke Arturo Ramirez John Fennell Miss Josephine Redfern Mrs Rita Ford Head Warden Ms Berni Reid Francis Franklin Miss Joanne Butcher Edwin Rodbard-Brown James Ganley Charles Rosen Roy Gardner Senior Wardens Miss Carly Rowlinson Norman Garrett Mrs Pilar Aran Martin Ryan Keith Gordon Brian Coutts Mrs Lauren Samet Ronald Grant Mrs Mary Mowbray John Seymour Mrs Nancy Green, RVM Mrs Karen Shirtcliffe Gordon Haines Wardens Victor Sidebotham Mrs Jacqueline Haines Miss Rosie Croker Ms Lourdes da Silva Brian Hall Colin Dempster Allan Smith Alan Head Miss Carol Leslie John Smith Mrs Brenda Herbert Mrs Harriette Riddell Ms Jean Spratley Peter Hicks Peter Whyte Graham Stagg Francis Holland, RVM Mrs Aileen Sutherland Mrs Margaret Holmes Visitor Services Assistants Allan Swiatek John Janes Juan Aguero Benítez Ms Monica Tandy Mrs Diana Jolley Miss Shona Cowe Alun Thomas Paul Kar Miss Jennie Crossley Christopher Thomas Mrs Leueen Killingbeck Mrs Janet Ferguson Christopher Tilly Mrs Margaret Lambeth Andrew Grant

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Ross Hannay Retail Manager Porter Mrs Zoë Hayes Miss Shirley Duke Stuart Robertson Mrs Sophie Henderson Andrew Hume-Voegeli Assistant Retail Managers Daily Ladies Mrs Chantal Hume-Voegeli Mrs Claire Anderson Mrs Elinor Allan Miss Rosie Hunter Andy Dickson Miss Sheila Cairns Paul Lambert Miss Julie-Anne Duff Mrs Lesley McGlinchey Retail and Admissions Supervisor Mrs Doreen Fraser Brian Morley Harry Ferguson Miss Yvonne Rollert Miss Rachel Skilling Administrative Assistant Paul Steele Mrs Alison Gove Miss Janet Stirling David Thomson Financial Assistant Miss Sharon Thomson Mrs Elaine Maclean Paul Wade Miss Janet Whellans

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