THE ROYAL COLLECTION TRUST

THE ROYAL
COLLECTION TRUST
Annual Report
for the year ended 31 March 2005
Company limited by guarantee, registered number 2713536
Registered Charity number 1016972
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 Lord Luce, GCVO, PC, DL
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Trustees
The Hon. Mrs Marten, OBE, DL (until 17 March 2005)
Sir Eric Anderson, KT, FRSE
Sir John Guinness, CB
Lady Shaw-Stewart (from 17 March 2005)
The Rt Hon. Sir Robin Janvrin, KCB, KCVO
Mr Alan Reid
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Secretary
Sir Hugh Roberts, KCVO, FSA
CONTENTS
Chairman’s Foreword
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Report of the Director of the Royal Collection
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Custodial Control
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Conservation
Pictures
Works of Art
Royal Library and Print Room
Royal Photograph Collection
Royal Archives
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Access and Presentation
Buckingham Palace
The Queen’s Gallery
The Royal Mews
Windsor Castle
The Drawings Gallery
Special Visits and Research Enquiries
Palace of Holyroodhouse
The Queen’s Gallery
Loans from the Royal Collection
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Interpretation
Education
Publishing
e-Gallery
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Accessions and Acquisitions
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Trading Activities
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Financial Overview
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Summarised Financial Statements
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Appendices
Exhibitions and Loans
Staff of the Royal Collection
External Appointments
Staff Numbers
Staff Training
Staff List
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John Singer Sargent (1856 –1925), Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon: profile portrait, 1923.
Sargent’s charcoal drawing provided a striking cover image for Watercolours and Drawings from the Collection of Queen Elizabeth
The Queen Mother, the catalogue of the exhibition on display at the Palace of Holyroodhouse from March to September 2005.
In the face of yet another testing year for tourism, it is most encouraging to be able to
report positive results for the Royal Collection Trust on a number of fronts, not least that
it has been possible to increase expenditure on conservation, that the restructuring of the
Trust last year has produced a more substantial increase in revenue from VAT cultural
exemption and Gift Aid than anticipated and that bank borrowings have reduced in line
with plan. This has been achieved in a year which has seen a slower than expected revival
in overseas tourism and the continuing strength of sterling against the dollar.
I am also glad to be able to record that the joint initiative with the National Trust to
develop a new Collections Management System for both organisations is proceeding
well and should be in place next year. As well as improving custodial control, this
will enable greater advantage to be taken of the wealth of information now stored on
the Royal Collection’s existing database. At the same time the pioneering multimedia
e-Gallery, which was introduced to The Queen’s Galleries in London and Edinburgh
three years ago, has now been included on the Royal Collection’s website, thereby
bringing some of the most important objects in the Collection to a much wider audience.
Further useful progress has also been made in the provision of educational projects
and activities for children and families. I look forward to seeing further developments in
these areas over the next few years.
Among the changes in the year I should mention the departure, in March, of Mary Anna
Marten after six years’ service as a Trustee and, in June, of Christopher Lloyd as
Surveyor of Pictures, a post he has held with distinction for eighteen years. I thank
them both most warmly for their contribution to the Trust and welcome their successors,
Lucinda Shaw-Stewart as a Trustee and Desmond Shawe-Taylor as Surveyor of Pictures.
I should also add my thanks to all present staff for their continuing hard work,
resourcefulness and commitment throughout a very challenging year.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR
O F T H E R OYA L C O L L E C T I O N
Sir Hugh Roberts
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ast year I reported that the Royal Collection Trust had experienced its most financially difficult year
to date. While this year has been, if possible, even more challenging for the Trust, it is heartening
to be able to report that the financial out-turn has been better than last year, that expenditure on
curatorial activities has been increased, and that a further substantial repayment of bank borrowings –
slightly ahead of target – has been made. Much of this benefit has come about as a result of the
commercially adroit decision taken by the Trustees to restructure the Trust in order to take advantage of
VAT cultural exemption as well as of Gift Aid. With help from these two sources, the results are
considerably better than might otherwise have been expected; furthermore, they have been achieved in
the face of a slower than expected revival in overseas tourism – particularly from the United States – and
the continued strength of sterling against the dollar.
Despite these adverse circumstances – common to almost all organisations dependent on tourism –
good progress has nevertheless been made in pursuing the principal aims of the Trust. The new
Collections Management System, which is being developed in collaboration with the National Trust, is
now at an advanced stage and should be in place in 2006. Among many other advantages, the new system
will bring substantially greater sophistication to the custodial control of the Collection and to the
management of conservation records. In the meantime, useful new material has been added to
the existing database and records have been continuously improved and updated. Excellent conservation
work has been undertaken throughout the Royal Collection during the year. While this activity is
inevitably something of a Forth Bridge, with a collection so large and varied, real and substantial progress
has indeed been made in the in-house paintings, works of art and paper conservation studios, as is
recorded in detail in the pages that follow.
On the access, interpretation and presentation fronts, the position is also reassuringly positive.
While to a large extent outside our direct control – or that of any organisation – visitor numbers overall
have been only a small percentage down on last year, and notably good media coverage has been achieved
for Royal Collection exhibitions and displays in London, Windsor and Edinburgh throughout the year.
While such coverage does not of itself translate into increased visitor numbers, the praise given to such
exhibitions as – for example – George III & Queen Charlotte: Patronage, Collecting and Court Taste, Enchanting
the Eye: Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age and Watercolours and Drawings from the Collection of Queen Elizabeth
The Queen Mother indicates a high level of critical appreciation, while the results from market research
(see page 25) indicate a high level of visitor enjoyment. In turn, these indicators reflect well on the efforts
of all curatorial sections to widen access to less familiar parts of the Collection, endeavours that are now
enhanced and supported by the inclusion of the Collection’s pioneering e-Gallery on the redesigned
Royal Collection website.
Looking ahead, the centrepiece of the Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace in 2005
(30 July – 27 September) will be the ‘White Wardrobe’ designed for Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
by Norman Hartnell and immortalised in Cecil Beaton’s famous series of photographs. The theme of the
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John Bratby (1928–92), Venezia, 1983.
This drawing was given to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother by the artist following her first visit to Venice in 1984.
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exhibition will be the State Visit to France made by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in July 1938.
Jewellery worn by Queen Elizabeth with Hartnell’s creations, and gifts presented to the King and Queen
by President and Madame Lebrun on behalf of the people of France, will be included in the display.
There will also be a display in the Ball Room to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of VE/VJ Day.
In The Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace, Enchanting the Eye will be succeeded in November
2005 by Canaletto in Venice, a selection of Venetian drawings and paintings by that city’s most celebrated
and popular topographical artist. Opening at Holyroodhouse in December 2005 will be Unfolding Pictures:
Fans in the Royal Collection, the first exhibition to be devoted to one of the most important and historic
collections of fans to have survived in original ownership.
Of the many initiatives undertaken in the course of the year, the progress made by the education
section at all sites stands out. With modest resources, striking advances have been made in the provision
of educational projects and activities for schoolchildren and families, and in the widening of adult
education through the introduction of study days and seminars linked to exhibitions.
The staff of the Royal Collection have, as ever, been ably supported in their varied activities by
the non-executive members of the Board of Royal Collection Enterprises, Mrs Frances Mossman and
Mrs Joanna Oswin; by advice and guidance from the Trustees and from the newly co-opted member of
the Audit Committee, Mr Nigel Turnbull; and by the generous assistance of colleagues throughout the
Royal Household. The coming year sees the retirement of Christopher Lloyd, Surveyor of The Queen’s
Pictures, after eighteen years’ distinguished service and a substantial and varied contribution to the work
of the Royal Collection, culminating in his exhibition Enchanting the Eye, for which he wrote the
well-received and deservedly popular catalogue.
This year’s Annual Report, which charts the achievements of the Trust in detail in the following
pages, has been rearranged to reflect progress in the year measured against the five primary aims
established when the Trust was set up in 1993. By grouping activities in this way, I hope a clearer picture
of the year’s many activities and achievements will emerge. At the same time, the substantial amount
of financial information included in previous years has been reduced to a summary. The full
financial statements are available from the Registered Office, Stable Yard House, St James’s Palace,
London SW1A 1JR.
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CUSTODIAL CONTROL
The project to develop a new Collections Management System, in partnership with the National Trust,
made significant progress during the year. The production of a fully developed specification, on which the
contractor, Serco Assurance, will base all further work, has strengthened the project timetable, and
delivery of the new system is now scheduled for the early part of 2006. As part of the specification
process, and to ensure that the proposed functionality meets the needs of the Royal Collection and
the National Trust, a series of joint-interest group meetings were held throughout the year. The project
continues to be overseen by a Joint Project Board.
Inventory checks, using the existing systems, were carried out at Buckingham Palace, Windsor
Castle, the Palace of Holyroodhouse and Clarence House. Support was also given to the authors of the
forthcoming catalogues raisonnés of Arms and Armour, Oriental Porcelain and Sèvres Porcelain.
A concurrent major project to scan about 70,000 decorative arts inventory photographs was
concluded during the year. These scanned images will be uploaded as part of the data transfer into the
new Collections Management System.
In preparation for the new system, consolidation and refinement of existing data in all sections
continued energetically throughout the year. During the period, 15,460 new records were added (an
increase of 7,975 over the previous year), bringing the total number to 587,842.
In the Royal Photograph Collection, 52,595 items have now been added to the inventory.
Inputting concentrated on material relating to Royal Tours – in particular those of HM The Queen and
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, and by foreign Heads of State to the United Kingdom during the present
reign. Photographic portraits from the 1870s to 1898, Royal Family albums and films, including many
from the collection of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, have also been brought into the inventory.
Work was completed on support systems for the separate Royal Archives database. The process
of making an inventory of the official papers of King George VI and HM The Queen and the papers of
the Department of the Master of the Household for the reign of King George V continued. Work
was completed on the computerised inventory of papers from the Privy Purse Department, from the
Lord Chamberlain and Master’s Departments and from the Private Estates. Work commenced on
the inventory of departmental records from the Royal Collection.
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CONSERVATION
PICTURES
Preparation of 51 paintings was completed for the exhibition Enchanting the Eye: Dutch Paintings of the
Golden Age, which opened in Edinburgh in May 2004 and in London in February 2005. As part of the
research for this exhibition, an infra-red reflectogram mosaic was created of A formal garden: three ladies
surprised by a gentleman, by Ludolf de Jongh, and Portrait of Rembrandt in a flat cap was x-rayed.
The resulting photography was added to the relevant entries on the e-Gallery.
Further technical examination, involving x-ray photography, infra-red reflectography and paint-layer
analysis, was undertaken on 35 paintings for the catalogue raisonné of Later Flemish Paintings.
The results of this research have shed new light on a number of areas; for example, the working
practice of Rubens in the large painting Pythagoras, on which he collaborated with Frans Snyders; the
underdrawing evident in the four paintings of The Elements by Jan Brueghel the Elder; and the finished
still life discovered beneath the surface of Paulus Bril’s A landscape with goatherds. Minor consolidation
and toning, with some surface cleaning and varnishing, was carried out on 25 paintings in preparation
for photography for this catalogue.
Conservation continued on paintings for
the exhibition of sixteenth- and seventeenthcentury Italian paintings to be held in The
Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, in 2007.
These included Psyche Abandoned by Polidoro
da Caravaggio, The Holy Family by Garofalo,
Portrait of Jacopo Sannazaro by Titian, Virgin and
Child in a landscape by Titian and Workshop,
Portrait of a woman in yellow by Andrea del
Sarto, and Warriors by Mazzolino. Infra-red
reflectography and x-ray photography have also
George Frederick Watts (1817–1904),
Mary Augusta, Lady Holland, 1843.
This portrait was painted in Florence where the sitter’s
husband, Henry Fox, later 4th Baron Holland, was
Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of the Grand
Duke of Tuscany from 1839 to 1846. It was bequeathed to
Edward VII when Prince of Wales by the sitter. Recently
cleaned for the centenary exhibition at the National
Portrait Gallery, Lady Holland wears a broad-brimmed
straw hat to keep off the sun and holds flowers suggesting
the allegorical figure of Flora. The influence of both
Rubens and Reynolds is apparent. The Hollands were
the artist’s principal patrons.
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been undertaken on several of these paintings and a number of others to be included in the exhibition.
Conservation of Calumny by Federico Zuccaro continued at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, and work on
Portrait of a man by Romanino has revealed a powerful and intriguing portrait under layers of varnish.
Cleaning has also revealed the rich colours and niche backgrounds of the four panels (originally organ
shutters) by Alessandro Turchi – Valour, Music, Poetry and Fortitude – which were painted for the
Accademia dei Filarmonici in Verona.
Further infra-red reflectography and paint analysis were carried out for visiting specialists and
scholars from institutions that included the Getty Museum, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the
National Gallery, Tate Britain and the Courtauld Institute.
Thirty-four paintings were checked and prepared in the Studio for loans to external exhibitions.
Seventeen paintings were treated and reframed at Sandringham during an on-site visit. Fifty paintings
were taken down, checked and some treated during the current phase of the fire-compartmentation
project at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
In total 183 paintings were treated in the Windsor, Friary Court or Hampton Court Studios, together
with several others either on site in the royal residences or at locations where they are on loan.
Fifty-four miniatures were checked and treated and a further twenty-one were examined in
connection with the forthcoming catalogue of Victorian miniatures.
W O R K S O F A RT
Two hundred and nine works of art were conserved in the Marlborough House Workshops. This total
included several major pieces for the new display Treasures from the Royal Collection in The Queen’s
Gallery, Buckingham Palace. Among them were an extremely rare repoussé silver table made for
Charles II in the 1670s, two elaborately mounted French pier tables by Adam Weisweiler, acquired by
George IV for the Chinese Drawing Room at Carlton House, and an outstanding cabinet by Martin
Carlin mounted with late seventeenth-century pietra dura panels. Twenty-one picture frames were treated
in the gilding workshop for the exhibition Enchanting the Eye: Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age, and a
further seven for outgoing loans. Progress continued to be made on the restoration of giltwood furniture
from Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.
As part of the programme of conservation not specifically connected with exhibition loans, two late
eighteenth-century French fall-front secretaires by Bernard Molitor from Buckingham Palace were
restored, and useful insights were obtained in the process about the reuse of seventeenth-century
Japanese lacquer panels in furniture of this kind. A pair of highly elaborate candelabra, originally made
for Brighton Pavilion and now in the Yellow Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace, were also fully
conserved. They incorporate late eighteenth-century Chinese porcelain vases, and brightly painted and
gilded bronze mounts by Vulliamy. Work also began on a major programme of porcelain cleaning and
restoration, prior to photography, in connection with the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Sèvres Porcelain.
The Armourer and Metalwork Conservator prepared a number of works of art for exhibition, ranging
from silver-gilt altar vessels to historic musical instruments. Twelve late seventeenth-century pole arms
from Hampton Court Palace were conserved and cleaning tests were undertaken on the arms displays in
the King’s Guard Chamber, Windsor Castle. A trophy consisting of 26 pieces of Indian weaponry at
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Sandringham House, presented to Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) in 1875 – 6,
was fully conserved, as the initial phase of the treatment of the collection. A piano commissioned by
Queen Victoria from S. & P. Erard in 1856 was restrung by a specialist subcontractor in connection with
a future recording project. Two more from the series of bronze statues cast from famous antiquities by
Hubert Le Sueur for Charles I in the 1630s were fully conserved and reinstated in the East Terrace
Garden at Windsor Castle as part of a continuing programme.
At the Palace of Holyroodhouse, 21 tapestries were taken down in advance of the latest phase of
fire-compartmentation work by Historic Scotland. This operation was planned and undertaken in
collaboration with the Hampton Court Palace salvage team. Many of the tapestries received minor
treatments as well as relining while the building work progressed.
Secretaire by Bernard Molitor,
c.1790.
This newly conserved cabinet,
one of a pair acquired by
George IV, incorporates panels
of fine seventeenth-century
Japanese lacquer.
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This slipcase, made and decorated
in the Royal Bindery at Windsor with
the use of tools from George III’s
bindery at Buckingham House,
was presented by HRH The Prince
of Wales to the President of Italy
in March 2005. It contains the
three-volume set of catalogues
(by Ian Campbell) of drawings
of Ancient Roman Topography and
Architecture, published by the Royal
Collection as part of the Dal Pozzo
Catalogue Project.
R O YA L L I B R A R Y A N D P R I N T R O O M
In the Royal Bindery, refurbishment programmes were undertaken on the books in several residences.
In total, some 1,900 volumes received treatment, of which 1,870 volumes were refurbished on site at
Windsor Castle, Sandringham House and Osborne House. At the latter two houses, book-refurbishment
programmes were established, and local staff and volunteers were trained to maintain them.
The remaining 30 volumes required more extensive work.
Among those volumes conserved for exhibitions and displays were Hartmann Schedel’s Nuremberg
Chronicle (1493), Pluvinel’s L’Instruction du Roi (1666), the catalogue of Consul Smith’s library, Bibliotheca
Smithiana (1755), three versions of Humphry Repton’s Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton (1808),
John Hayter’s A Report upon the Herculaneum Manuscripts (1811), and Sir Marc Isambard Brunel’s
Sectional View of the Rotherhithe Tunnel (1843). Notable volumes treated as part of a rolling conservation
programme included John Parkinson’s Theatrum Botanicum (1640), rebound in a mid-seventeenthcentury-style binding, and the published score of Giacomo Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West (1910),
presented by the composer to Queen Alexandra in November 1910. Four presentation bindings with
drop-back boxes were made, one for the George III & Queen Charlotte exhibition catalogue, and three
for copies of the Royal Treasures catalogue. A slipcase (reproduced above) was made for presentation to
the President of Italy.
In the Drawings Conservation Studio, 370 artefacts (147 drawings and watercolours, 101 prints,
43 fans and fan boxes, 7 pastels, 60 architectural plans, 3 photographs and 9 other items) were conserved.
A total of 129 items were mounted, 214 items permanently framed, and 24 mounts were lettered. Another
171 items were conserved or reframed for permanent hanging in the different royal residences. Students
on work experience from Camberwell College of Art conserved 58 architectural plans of Windsor Castle.
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Items conserved for current and forthcoming exhibitions included two items for the exhibition
Holbein to Hockney: Drawings from the Royal Collection, among which was Claude’s Apulian Shepherd, a
major conservation and consolidation task; also 41 items for Watercolours and Drawings from the Collection
of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and 42 fans for Unfolding Pictures: Fans in the Royal Collection. Five
items were conserved for the Buckingham Palace Summer Opening display, while fifteen items were
prepared for temporary displays, including the British Design Reception, the Polish and Italian State
Visits and the French Official Visit.
Twelve items were conserved for external loan, including five large nineteenth-century watercolours
by Edward Henry Corbould, James Stephanoff and John Varley for the exhibition The Triumph of
Watercolour at Dulwich Picture Gallery, and three by Carl Haag for the exhibition Our Highland Home at
the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. All the historic frames relating to these items were also conserved.
R O YA L P H O T O G R A P H C O L L E C T I O N
In addition to the long-term programme of conservation and sleeving, loan-related work included the
preparation of four of Roger Fenton’s photographs of Windsor Castle in 1860 for exhibition in America
and London, and six photographs of animals in London Zoo in 1852 for exhibition in Germany.
The bindings of three volumes of Portraits of Royal Children were repaired.
These pages from a book entitled ‘Princess Victoria’s paper dolls’ were part of the display mounted in the Picture Gallery at
Buckingham Palace on the occasion of HM The Queen’s reception for British Design, held in November 2004. The dolls are
all dressed in the latest London fashions for the 1830s. According to the inscription below the central doll on the right-hand
page, it was ‘Painted by Princess Victoria’ herself.
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R O YA L A R C H I V E S
The conservation of Victorian folders and volumes continued: twelve folders were repaired or replaced
and four volumes were rebound or repaired. Work continued on a series of nineteenth-century bills for
the Lord Chamberlain’s Office at Windsor, the contents of four folders (c. 780 documents) being
conserved and rehoused. Two volumes of Court Circulars were repaired. The renovation of the papers of
the exiled Stuarts was completed, 400 volumes being treated. Renovation work commenced on a series
of volumes containing press cuttings of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, 98 volumes being
treated. Six albums of dress designs and fabric samples from the mid-twentieth century were repaired and
rehoused in polyester sleeves and boxes. Eleven silk theatre programmes were rehoused in linen covers.
A volume of paper dolls belonging to Princess (later Queen) Victoria (see illustration opposite) was
repaired. Work commenced on repairing a series of letters from Queen Adelaide to Queen Victoria.
Three loyal addresses to King George VI were cleaned, pressed and sleeved.
Until 1939 all dress worn at
court was strictly codified by
the Lord Chamberlain’s Office,
a Department of the Royal
Household. This watercolour
was one of the ‘Sketches of
typical Court Dress’ mentioned
in the printed instructions
(still attached to the design) as
being available for viewing at
St James’s Palace by those due
to visit court. According to the
instructions, ‘coloured feathers
are inadmissible’, and the veil
and train should not exceed
45 inches and two yards
respectively. The sketch was
included in the display in
the Picture Gallery at
Buckingham Palace at the time
of The Queen’s reception for
British Design, held in
November 2004.
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ACCESS AND PRESENTATION
Access to the Royal Collection is achieved principally by the regular opening to the public of the official
residences of HM 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). Access is further increased through Royal Collection exhibitions at The Queen’s Galleries in
London and Edinburgh, by temporary displays in the residences, by Royal Collection travelling
exhibitions, loans by HM The Queen to exhibitions in the United Kingdom and abroad (most of the
foregoing being supported by publications written by staff of the Royal Collection), and by the long-term
loan of objects from the Royal Collection (totalling
in excess of 3,000) to national and regional
institutions throughout the United Kingdom.
Work has continued during the year on the
implementation of measures to ensure that the
Royal Collection is not only compliant with the
Disability Discrimination Act but also adopts best
practice in providing access to its sites for visitors
with disabilities.
B U C K I N G H A M PA L A C E
The State Rooms were open for 58 days from
31 July to 26 September (2003 – 4: 59 days) and
attracted 294,000 visitors, an average of over
5,000 per day. The special display on the history
of musical entertainment at Buckingham Palace,
shown in the Ball Supper Room for the Summer
Opening, included three paintings: Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert at the Bal Costumé of 12 May
1842 by Sir Edwin Landseer, Queen Victoria and
Prince Albert in Stuart costumes by Franz Xaver
Winterhalter, and a portrait of Karl Friedrich Abel
Queen Victoria’s dress for the Stuart Ball, which was held
in the Throne Room of Buckingham Palace in 1851. It was
one of three historic dresses shown during the 2004 Summer
Opening of Buckingham Palace.
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Musicians from the Band of the Irish Guards helped to publicise the Summer Opening display. The uniform and instrument
(a basson russe of c.1820) on the left are from Queen Victoria’s private band.
by Charles Jean Robineau, as well as historic fancy-dress costumes, musical instruments,
photographs and souvenirs. As part of the audio tour of the State Rooms, visitors heard famous
performers, the sounds of the original instruments on show and some of the music specially composed
for the Royal Family. The display included Queen Victoria’s
costume for the Stuart Ball held in 1851 and the dress worn by
Alexandra, Princess of Wales (later Queen Alexandra) for the Fancy
Dress Ball of 1871, which she attended dressed as Mary, Queen of
Scots. In addition, 52 items of insignia were shown in the Ball Room
during the Summer Opening.
In the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace, displays were
mounted for two State Visits – by the President of Poland in May 2004
and the President of Italy in March 2005 – as well as for a reception
held to celebrate British Design in November 2004, for the
International Olympic Committee team evaluating the 2012 London
Olympic Bid in February 2005, and again in March for the reception
to mark the centenary of the British Olympic Association.
These Polish dolls, presented by President Raczkiewicz of Poland in December 1940,
were among the items included in the display in the Picture Gallery, Buckingham
Palace, at the time of the State Visit of the President of Poland in May 2004. They
were a gift to the King’s two daughters, Princesses Elizabeth (HM The Queen)
and Margaret. The wooden dolls are dressed in national costume for their wedding.
Their faces are carved and painted, their limbs are fully articulated and their clothes
– particularly the girl’s – are exquisitely made and decorated.
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Aelbert Cuyp (1620–1691), A Negro Page, c.1650–55.
One of Cuyp’s most beautiful late landscapes, which was included in the new display of Treasures from the Royal Collection at
The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, in 2005. The hilly landscape may have been inspired by the artist’s journey up the Rhine
to the German border undertaken at the beginning of the 1650s. The golden light is reminiscent of the Roman campagna which
Cuyp, however, did not experience for himself and only knew from works by other artists. The painting was bought at auction by
George IV in 1809 and was one of seven examples in his collection.
T H E Q U E E N ’ S G A L L E R Y, B U C K I N G H A M PA L A C E
The Gallery was open for 329 days in the year to 31 March 2005 and attracted 111,000 visitors.
The exhibition George III & Queen Charlotte continued until 9 January 2005 (see the 2003– 4 Annual Report
for details). The exhibition Enchanting the Eye: Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age moved from Edinburgh
to London, where it opened in the Chambers Gallery at The Queen’s Gallery on 11 February 2005. At the
same time a new display of Treasures from the Royal Collection was mounted in the Pennethorne and Nash
Galleries. The selection of paintings for this display includes A Negro Page by Aelbert Cuyp, The Rape of
Europa by Claude Lorrain, Cupid and Psyche by Van Dyck and William Powell Frith’s celebrated evocation
of the Victorian seaside, Ramsgate Sands. The exhibition provides an opportunity to show some of the
most popular pieces in the Collection – such as George IV’s Diamond Diadem, the Cullinan Diamond
brooch, Queen Victoria’s Jewel Cabinet and works by Fabergé – alongside less familiar objects. Included
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in the latter category were a German seventeenth-century silver equestrian statuette of Gustavus
Adolphus, a unique bronze model of a satyr by Cellini (described in the 2003– 4 Annual Report) and four
magnificent early eighteenth-century bronze reliefs of the Seasons by Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi.
T H E R O YA L M E W S
The Royal Mews was open to visitors between 27 March and 31 October in 2004 and reopened on
5 March in 2005. During 2004 – 5 visitor numbers increased by 2,000, from 117,000 to 119,000. Due to a
reduction in the number of days open compared with the previous year, this represented an increase of
3% in average daily visitors. For 2005 the visitor route has been slightly altered and a State Rolls Royce
placed on view as an additional feature.
WINDSOR CASTLE
The first quarter of the year saw visitor
numbers increase by 18% compared with
the previous year, but over the remainder
of the year numbers have been largely
unchanged. Visitor numbers therefore
ended the year up by 56,000, 6% on the
previous year.
For the summer season, from 17 July
to 12 September, a spectacular group
of gold plate from the Grand Service
was shown in the Waterloo Chamber. The
Grand Service was originally supplied
to George IV by the royal goldsmiths
Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, and is still
used for State Banquets and official
entertaining. The display was based on
the magnificent banquet held by Queen
Victoria in 1844 for Emperor Nicholas I
of Russia.
For the Christmas period, in addition
to the now customary Christmas tree
in the Queen’s Guard Chamber, pieces
from the Grand Service were again
displayed in the Waterloo Chamber,
which was decorated with elaborate floral
arrangements in the Victorian manner.
The Christmas display of silver-gilt in the Waterloo Chamber, Windsor Castle.
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The installation of Chantrey’s bust of Nelson
at Windsor Castle in March 2005.
To mark the bicentenary of the Battle
of Trafalgar, a colossal bust of Lord Nelson
by Sir Francis Chantrey, commissioned by
William IV in 1834, was returned to its
original home in the Queen’s Guard
Chamber. It had been removed in the reign
of King Edward VII and has been on loan
to other institutions for most of the last
century. The redecoration of the King’s
Closet, with crimson silk of the pattern
of adjoining rooms, was also completed.
The room has been rehung with a group of
sixteenth-century Italian paintings, including
works by (or attributed to) Bronzino, Lotto,
Palma Vecchio, Raphael and Giorgione.
Material from the Royal Library, the
Royal Archives and the Royal Photograph
Collection was arranged in the Library in
April 2004 for HM The Queen’s guests, and
in the Crimson Drawing Room for the visit of
the President of France to Windsor in
November, to celebrate the centenary of the
entente cordiale. A selection of illustrated pages from the Padshahnama was exhibited for HRH The Prince
of Wales’s guests at a dinner for Indian Charities in December 2004.
The Drawings Gallery
In addition to the changing displays of Old Master drawings, an exhibition to commemorate the 400th
anniversary of the foundation of the Stuart monarchy was shown until October. It was followed by
a display marking the publication of Developing the Picture: Queen Alexandra and the art of photography
by the Curator of the Royal Photograph Collection, Frances Dimond. This included photographs,
albums, watercolours and Queen Alexandra’s ‘Kinora’, a clockwork film-viewer.
Special Visits and Research Enquiries
The Royal Library received around 160 enquiries, and was visited by 11 researchers and 13 groups,
amounting to some 290 visitors in all. Among the groups were the Lambeth Commission (in the course
of a meeting at St George’s House, Windsor Castle), the Patrons of the Victoria and Albert Museum and
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This photograph, taken by Queen Alexandra in 1908, shows her daughter Princess Victoria, with three of her great nieces, the
daughters of the Emperor and Empress of Russia (Maria, Tatiana and Olga). Their mother, the Empress Alexandra, is seated
towards the right. This was one of many photographs by Queen Alexandra illustrated in Frances Dimond’s book Developing the
Picture: Queen Alexandra and the art of photography, published by the Royal Collection in October 2004; it was also included in the
associated exhibition in the Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle (October 2004 – April 2005).
the prize-winners of the Windsor Festival’s art, music and literature competitions for local secondary
schools. The Print Room received visits from 97 individuals, and groups from the Courtauld Institute,
the University of Tennessee and The Prince of Wales’s Drawing Studio. The Royal Photograph Collection
received over a thousand enquiries. There were 39 research visits to the Collection, and 137 orders for
copy photographs were received (2003 – 4: 865, 28 and 137 respectively). The Royal Archives dealt
with 1,290 enquiries (2003 – 4: 1,275), of which 384 were genealogical, 704 general and 202 were for
information required by the Royal Household. Seventy-five researchers visited the Royal Archives,
carrying out 462 research days. In addition, 95 people came to the Round Tower in group visits, and saw
material from both the Royal Archives and the Royal Photograph Collection. Flora Fraser’s book,
Princesses: the six daughters of George III, which makes extensive use of material in the Royal Archives, was
published by John Murray.
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PA L A C E O F H O LY R O O D H O U S E
Overall visitor numbers have recovered well this year, increasing by 13,000 from 212,000 to 225,000.
With greater royal usage of the Palace and a consequent reduction in the number of open days, this
represents an increase in average daily visitors of 9%. The completion of the new Scottish Parliament
building, and its opening by HM The Queen in October 2004, generated considerable local interest and
no doubt boosted visitor numbers around this period. These results are particularly encouraging in
view of the fact that the continuing fire-compartmentation project, carried out by Historic Scotland, has
caused unavoidable disruption to the visitor route.
T H E Q U E E N ’ S G A L L E RY
The Padshahnama exhibition concluded on 3 May 2004 and was followed by Enchanting the Eye: Dutch
Paintings of the Golden Age from 14 May until 7 November 2004. The exhibition included genre scenes,
portraits, still lifes, history paintings, landscapes and seascapes by the great masters of the seventeenth
century. Among the works shown
were Rembrandt’s Christ and St Mary
Magdalene at the Tomb and his selfportrait of 1642, landscapes by Aelbert
Cuyp and Johannes Vermeer’s A lady at
the virginals with a gentleman (‘The Music
Lesson’). The exhibition attracted some
47,400 visitors and was followed by
Holbein to Hockney: Drawings from
the Royal Collection. This opened on
25 November 2004 and closed on
6 March 2005, having attracted 11,500
visitors. The opening of the new
exhibition, Watercolours and Drawings
from the Collection of Queen Elizabeth
The Queen Mother, was marked by a
reception held by HRH The Prince of
Wales on 18 March 2005. The latter
two exhibitions will be coming to
London during 2006.
The exhibition catalogue for Enchanting the Eye:
Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age, published in
2004.
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Hans Holbein the Younger, Cicely Heron, c.1527.
This study of Thomas More’s daughter Cicely, made in
preparation for Holbein’s group portrait of More’s family,
was one of the highlights of the Royal Collection’s
exhibition Holbein to Hockney. The exhibition was on
view at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse,
from November 2004 to March 2005. In April 2005 it
transferred to Te Papa in Wellington, New Zealand,
before a final showing takes place at The Queen’s Gallery,
Buckingham Palace, in 2006.
L O A N S F R O M T H E R O YA L C O L L E C T I O N
Pictures
In the course of the year, a total of 20 pictures were lent to exhibitions in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Major loans to international exhibitions included two paintings by George Stubbs (The Prince of Wales’s
phaeton and Lady Lade) to Stubbs and the Horse in Fort Worth and Baltimore; two portraits by Sir Joshua
Reynolds (David Garrick as Kitely and Self-portrait wearing spectacles) to Ferrara for Joshua Reynolds:
the Creation of Celebrity; and two views of Rome by Canaletto (The Forum towards the Capitol and
The Pantheon) to Rome for Canaletto: Il Trionfo della Veduta. St Jerome reading by Georges de la Tour was
lent to the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, for the first retrospective of the artist’s work to be
mounted in Japan. Portrait of a man by Hans Memling was included in an exhibition of portraits by
the artist in Madrid, and Portrait of a lady in green by Bronzino was lent to Philadelphia for Pontormo,
Bronzino and the Medici: the Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait.
Within the United Kingdom, significant loans included Philip III and Margaret of Austria by Pantoja de la
Cruz to the Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, for Talking Peace: the Somerset House Conference Paintings,
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This nautilus cup of c.1600 is a spectacular example of
the work of Augsburg goldsmith Nikolaus Schmidt, and was
loaned to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2004 to serve
as a principal exhibit in the exhibition entitled Encounters: the
Meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500–1800.
commemorating the 400th anniversary of that
event; The Chinese Convert by Sir Godfrey Kneller
to the Victoria and Albert Museum for Encounters:
the Meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500–1800; Life at
the Seaside by William Powell Frith to the Bowes
Museum for Boudin, Monet and the Sea Painters of
Normandy; and The Gold Jug by William Nicholson
to the Royal Academy for William Nicholson: British
Painter and Printmaker.
Works of Art
In the course of the year a total of 40 works of art
were lent to 17 exhibitions in the United Kingdom
and abroad. International loans included Captain
Scott’s ‘Union’ flag, which was shown at Te Papa in
Wellington, New Zealand; a seventeenth-century Peruvian silver-gilt tray lent to the Colonial Andes
exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; several pieces from the famous Tournai
porcelain service decorated with birds, lent to the Musée Royal d’Art et d’Histoire in Brussels; and
Charles Cordier’s bronze busts of the Vénus Africaine and Saïd Abdullah, which were shown in the major
exhibition of the sculptor’s work in Paris, Quebec and New York. The most significant loan within
the United Kingdom was the exquisitely mounted nautilus shell cup by Nikolaus Schmidt, lent to the
Victoria and Albert Museum for Encounters: the Meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500–1800.
Royal Library, Print Room and Royal Photograph Collection
A total of 53 drawings and watercolours, 2 prints and 1 pastel were loaned to 15 exhibitions, of which
5 were within the UK, 4 in the USA, 1 each in France, Austria and Sweden and 3 in Italy. The latter
included the loan of ten drawings by Canaletto to the Palazzo Giustiniani, Rome, and seven drawings by
Leonardo da Vinci to the Museo di Palazzo Poggi, Bologna. Loans from the Royal Library included the
Mainz Psalter to Göttingen University and two items associated with the Belgian Order of Leopold, lent
to an exhibition of the work of the silversmith Dutalis held in Antwerp and Het Loo. Four photographs
by Roger Fenton were lent to the major touring exhibition, which was shown in Washington and
Los Angeles before transferring to New York and London later in 2005.
For a full list of exhibitions and loans, see pages 43– 6.
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INTERPRETATION
Every year the Royal Collection undertakes market research among visitors at each site. The findings
influence the Royal Collection’s PR and marketing strategy and highlight areas for future investment to
improve the visitor experience. The results of market research undertaken in 2004 – 5 indicate that all
sites have shown an improvement in both the ‘overall enjoyment’ and the ‘value for money’ ratings, which
have been in the following ranges:
Overall enjoyment
Value for money
2004 – 5
2003 – 4
1.5 to 1.8
1.2 to 1.6
1.1 to 1.8
0.9 to 1.6
Excellent (+2) Good (+1) Just OK (0) Poor (-1) Very Poor (-2)
Further investment in interpretation for visitors this year has included the introduction of an audio tour
for the George III & Queen Charlotte and Enchanting the Eye exhibitions. The Buckingham Palace Summer
Opening audio tour is updated every year to include the special display in the Ball Supper Room,
and is available in a children’s version and in English and five other languages. As the audio tours of
The Queen’s Galleries at Buckingham Palace and Holyroodhouse are included in the admission charge, there
is an exceptionally high take-up rate. In the Royal Mews, the introduction of guided tours by Royal
Collection staff has been extremely well received and has made a major contribution to visitors’
understanding of the work of the Mews in supporting HM The Queen in the performance of her official
duties. An updated audio tour is in development for Windsor Castle and will be introduced in early 2006.
A three-part BBC1 documentary on the life of Windsor Castle and its community, covering many of the
activities of the Royal Collection, was broadcast in March and April 2005.
E D U C AT I O N
Schools and Families
New educational resources developed over the last twelve months have included the formation of a
handling collection and the introduction of a series of practical workshops at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
Garden Tours and Activity Boxes were created for family groups during the summer school holidays, and
these have proved very popular. In the coming year a joint initiative with Historic Scotland, linking
Edinburgh Castle and the Palace, will include a workshop exploring the life of Mary, Queen of Scots.
The expanded schools programme at the Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace, incorporated a popular
‘Behind-the-Scenes’ guided tour. The new Education Room at the Mews has been well used by family
groups over school holidays and weekends. The activities and resources made available included
workshops, quizzes and thematic trails.
In the last few weeks of the Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace, over 500 pupils from local
schools visited the State Rooms. Using the new garden activity trail developed by Royal Collection
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Education and the Gardens Manager, pupils aged seven to eleven learned about the vast range of wildlife
and flowers to be found in the Palace garden, and the different uses of the garden today.
At Windsor Castle, arts-based activity weeks were run throughout the school year on the themes of
‘Victorian Castles’, ‘Knights and Castles’ and ‘Castles Long Ago’. Teachers of Key Stages 1 and 2 pupils
were also offered a new introductory talk given at St George’s Chapel. A programme of Christmas
activities took place on 29 and 30 December, with family groups following an activity trail through the
State Apartments on the theme of Christmas celebrations, past and present. Over 500 adults and
children took part in the February half-term family activities, exploring State portraiture.
Teachers’ evenings held at each location helped to raise awareness of the resources available for
school groups. Further development of the schools programme during the year included production of
a schools leaflet for each location.
Adult Education
A two-day symposium entitled ‘The Wisdom of George III’ was held in June 2004 at The Queen’s Gallery,
Buckingham Palace, to coincide with the George III & Queen Charlotte exhibition. Seventeen papers (to be
published later in 2005), covering many aspects of the collections and patronage of the King and Queen,
were delivered to an audience of ninety participants. In addition to Royal Collection staff, the speakers
included Professor David Watkin of Cambridge University, Miss Flora Fraser, historian and biographer,
Miss Judy Rudoe of the British Museum, Dr Marcus Köhler, Dr Holger Hoock and Mr John Harris.
The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, held its first Study Day in April 2004 for the
exhibition King of the World: the Padshahnama. The speakers were Dr Robert Skelton, former Keeper of the
Indian Section at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dr Susan Stronge of the Victoria and Albert Museum,
Professor Ebba Koch of the University of Vienna and Dr David Jacobs of the British Library. Their subjects
included the jewellery, painting and architecture of the Mughal court, and the materials used by artists.
Two further study days were arranged in connection with the exhibition Enchanting the Eye: Dutch
Paintings of the Golden Age. The first was held at the Palace and organised in conjunction with the Visual
Arts Research Institute, University of Edinburgh. Under the heading ‘New Research in Dutch
Seventeenth-century Paintings’, five papers were given by specialists to an invited academic audience
chaired by the Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures. The second study day, ‘Rembrandt to Vermeer: Dutch
Paintings of the Golden Age’, intended for the general public, was held at the National Gallery of
Scotland. Three lectures were given, including one by the Surveyor, and the event concluded with a
reception held in the Enchanting the Eye exhibition.
OPPOSITE: Gerrit Dou (1613–75), The Grocer’s Shop, 1672.
Dou was the leading exponent of the fijnshilders (fine painters) style of painting based in Leiden. The artist’s close observation
and high degree of brushwork were much admired by his contemporaries. The subject celebrates the rich and exotic products that
poured into the Netherlands from its trading posts around the world, thanks to the establishment of its maritime empire. This was
one of 51 paintings included in the exhibition Enchanting the Eye: Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age shown at The Queen’s Galleries
at Holyroodhouse and Buckingham Palace in 2004–5.
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The ninth Annual Royal Collection Studies Summer School took place in September 2004, organised
(as in previous years) by the Attingham Trust and directed by Giles Waterfield. The 30 participants
included senior staff from museums, collections and auction houses in 11 countries, including the USA,
France, Australia, New Zealand, Lithuania, Sweden and Portugal. Many of the lectures and visits over the
ten-day course were given or led by Royal Collection curatorial staff, and for the first time there was a
chaired discussion on the challenge of presenting palaces to the public.
Lectures Given by Staff
Robert Ball (Senior Horological Conservator) lectured on ‘Buckingham Palace and Royal Clocks’ to
the Berkhamsted Rotary Club.
Deborah Clarke (Assistant Curator, Palace of Holyroodhouse) lectured on ‘The Queen’s Galleries’ to the
Embroiderers’ Guild, Edinburgh.
Martin Clayton (Deputy Curator of the Print Room) lectured at the National Gallery Raphael
conference, and gave an evening talk on the Holbein to Hockney exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery,
Holyroodhouse.
Frances Dimond (Curator of the Royal Photograph Collection) gave four gallery talks at the time of the
opening of the Queen Alexandra exhibition in The Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle. She also gave talks
on ‘Queen Alexandra and Photography’ at the ‘Royalty Digest’ weekend in April 2004; at Methvens
bookshop, Windsor; and to the Slough and District Civic Society. She lectured on ‘Queen Victoria and
Fashion’ to the Maidenhead Evening Townswomen’s Guild.
Caroline de Guitaut (Assistant Curator and Loans Officer, Works of Art) lectured at the Bard
Graduate Center, New York, and at the Hillwood Museum, Washington D.C., on ‘Queen Alexandra’s
Fabergé Flowers’.
Christopher Lloyd (Surveyor of Pictures) gave ten lectures on various aspects of the Royal Collection,
and on Impressionism. These included ‘Reflections on Dutch Seventeenth-century Paintings in the
Royal Collection’ at the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, and at the National Gallery, London,
in connection with the exhibition Enchanting the Eye: Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age. Other lectures were
given for Orley Farm School, John Hall Pre-University Course at the National Gallery, the National
Art Collections Fund (Cheshire), Turner Contemporary, Margate (‘W.P. Frith and Ramsgate Sands’),
Jersey Ladies’ Literary Luncheon Club, and for Royal Collection Studies. Papers were given at three
conferences: on ‘George III and his Painters’ for the George III symposium at The Queen’s Gallery,
Buckingham Palace (later repeated for staff of the Royal Household); on ‘The Exhibition Scene: do works
of art suffer from jet lag?’ for ‘Picking up the Pieces: managing the risks of art on the move’, organised
by Axa Art at the Wallace Collection; and on ‘George III and Benjamin West’ for the ‘Benjamin West in
Focus Study Day’, organised by the National Gallery of Scotland. He also spoke at the opening of the
annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters at the Mall Galleries and at the re-presented
national collection of miniatures at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Jonathan Marsden (Deputy Surveyor of Works of Art) lectured to Bookham Commons National Trust
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Association on ‘George III and Queen Charlotte’, and for Christie’s Education on ‘Royal Collecting to
1700’. At the George III symposium he spoke on ‘The State Coach’ (later repeated for staff of the Royal
Household). He spoke at a two-day conference at the Wallace Collection on ‘Portrait Busts of Charles I’.
He lectured to and guided a group from the Furniture History Society on a visit to Sandringham House,
and lectured on Buckingham Palace for Royal Collection Studies.
Theresa-Mary Morton (Exhibitions Co-ordinator) gave two lectures on the Royal Collection at
Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand, and spoke on the Padshahnama at the Metropolitan University
of Manchester.
Susan Owens (Assistant Curator of the Print Room) lectured on ‘The Queen Mother’s Art Collection’
at the Guildhall, Windsor, as part of the Windsor Festival 2005 Spring Weekend.
Stephen Patterson (Computer Systems Manager) presented a paper (with Rory Matthews, multimedia
consultant) on the Royal Collection e-Gallery to the EVA (Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts)
conference in Florence.
Hugh Roberts (Director of the Royal Collection) lectured at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, on
‘The Roles of George III and Queen Charlotte as Patrons and Collectors’; at the George III Symposium
on ‘Furnishing George III and Queen Charlotte’s Palaces’ (later repeated for staff of the Royal
Household); and for Royal Collection Studies on ‘George IV’s Restoration of Windsor Castle’.
Jane Roberts (Royal Librarian and Curator of the Print Room) lectured on ‘George III and Queen
Charlotte’ to Royal Collection Studies, at the British Museum (as part of Art Fortnight London), to the
York Georgian Society, and to the Windsor Soroptomists; and gave the Bond Memorial Lecture at
St George’s Chapel on ‘George III and Queen Charlotte at Windsor’. She also spoke on ‘George III and
Queen Charlotte’s Art Purchases Abroad’ at the George III symposium (later repeated for staff of the
Royal Household).
Jennifer Scott (Assistant Curator and Loans Officer, Pictures) gave one lecture and eight talks at the
National Portrait Gallery and one lecture and fourteen ‘Picture in Focus’ talks at the National Gallery.
Christopher Stevens (Superintendent of the Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace) lectured to a
group from the National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies (NADFAS) on the work of the
Royal Collection.
Lucy Whitaker (Assistant Surveyor of Pictures) gave a lecture on the Royal Collection to the Friends of
Exeter Cathedral as part of their 75th Jubilee celebrations.
David Wheeler (Senior Furniture Conservator) lectured on ‘The Royal Conservation Workshops’ to
the Institute of Professional Management at Bournemouth and on ‘The History and Treasures of
Carlton House’ to the Friends of the Queen Elizabeth Foundation for the Disabled. He also lectured on
‘Furniture from the Royal Collection’ to Furniture History Society audiences in Sydney and Melbourne,
Australia.
Matthew Winterbottom (Assistant Curator, Works of Art) lectured on ‘George III and Queen
Charlotte’s Silver’ at the Summerleaze Gallery in Wiltshire. He also spoke at the George III symposium
on ‘Dining with George III’ (later repeated for Royal Household staff).
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The Architect King: George III and the
culture of the Enlightenment by David Watkin,
published in 2004.
PUBLISHING
Royal Collection Publications produced three exhibition catalogues in 2004– 5: Enchanting the Eye: Dutch
Paintings of the Golden Age by Christopher Lloyd, Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures; Holbein to Hockney:
Drawings from the Royal Collection by Martin Clayton, Deputy Curator of the Print Room; and Watercolours
and Drawings from the Collection of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother by Susan Owens, Assistant Curator
of the Print Room.
In addition, three stand-alone books were published. The Garden at Buckingham Palace: an illustrated
history, by the distinguished garden historian Jane Brown, traces the history of the garden from a
seventeenth-century mulberry plantation to the present day. The book is illustrated with material from
the Royal Collection and Royal Archives, and the specially commissioned photographs by Christopher
Simon Sykes record the changing character of the garden over the seasons of a year. To mark the
publication of the book, an edition of BBC Radio 4 ‘Gardeners’ Question Time’ was broadcast from the
Bow Room at Buckingham Palace, and a BBC2 ‘Gardeners’ World’ special on the Palace garden was
filmed over the year and broadcast in July and December.
Developing the Picture: Queen Alexandra and the art of photography, by Frances Dimond, Curator of the
Royal Photograph Collection, is the first-ever study of Queen Alexandra’s interest in photography and is
illustrated with 180 of her photographs, most of which have never before been published. Promotion of
the book included a studio discussion on ‘This Morning’.
The Architect King: George III and the culture of the Enlightenment, by the well-known architectural
historian Professor David Watkin, presents a full account of George III’s patronage of architects and
garden designers, setting the King and his patronage in a European context.
The publication of these three titles, backed by substantial media coverage and increased marketing,
helped boost UK trade sales from £56,000 to £138,000.
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In addition to the above projects, work is underway on publishing the
papers from the symposium held at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham
Palace in 2004, and continues on four major catalogues raisonnés as well
as new titles and reprints of Royal Collection guidebooks.
As in previous years, Royal Collection Publications exhibited at the
Frankfurt Book Fair, with a revised trade catalogue of titles. As a result,
discussions are underway for future publications with several foreign
publishers. A new US distribution agreement was successfully negotiated
during the year and this has already produced a marked increase in trade
sales in the US – $73,000 from September 2004 to March 2005,
compared to $61,000 for the year to March 2004.
The following publications by staff of the Royal Collection
(in addition to the titles listed above) appeared during the year:
Martin Clayton: ‘Drawings by Domenico Campagnola after Giusto
de’ Menabuoi’s Apocalypse Frescos’, Master Drawings, XLII, 2004,
pp. 315 – 32.
Caroline de Guitaut: ‘His Greatest Patroness: Queen Alexandra and
Fabergé Flowers’, in Fabergé Flowers, ed. Joyce Lasky Reed and Marilyn
Pfeifer Swezey, New York, 2004.
Jonathan Marsden: ‘Tanzender Faun und Nymphe (Adriaen de Vries) –
eine Bronze für die einsame insel’, Dresdener Kunstblätter, April 2004;
‘John, 3rd Earl of Bute, Patron and Collector’ by Francis Russell, book
review, The Georgian, Winter 2004.
e - G A L L E RY
The Royal Collection e-Gallery, the interactive multimedia catalogue
installed at The Queen’s Galleries in London and Edinburgh in 2002, was
updated with the addition of the Buckingham Palace Summer Opening
display and the exhibitions Enchanting the Eye, Holbein to Hockney, Queen
Alexandra and the Art of Photography and Watercolours and Drawings from the
Collection of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. More than 1,600 items
from the Collection are now accessible through this medium. Some 150
interactive features have been developed, and new features are created for
each exhibition. Terminals were installed in the Drawings Gallery,
Windsor Castle, for the duration of the Queen Alexandra exhibition.
The first stage of the new e-Gallery was launched on the Royal
Collection’s new website on 27 April 2005, to coincide with the reception
given by HRH The Prince of Wales at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham
Palace, to mark the start of Museums and Galleries Month.
Two pages from the e-Gallery, launched in
April 2005 as part of the new Royal Collection
website, www.royalcollection.org.uk/egallery.
The site provides pictures and information
on more than 1,600 items, including 87 that
have special interactive features, such as
the Mosaic Egg by Carl Fabergé and its
‘surprise’ contents.
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ACCESSIONS AND ACQUISITIONS
An important Sèvres vase, the missing centrepiece of a garniture of three vases purchased by MarieAntoinette in 1779 for her own use at Versailles, was acquired in 2004 by HM The Queen from a private
collection. The flanking vases, which had probably become separated from the centre vase in the
aftermath of the French Revolution, were already in the Royal Collection, having been bought by George IV
in the early nineteenth century. All three vases are painted with chinoiserie scenes and birds and mounted
with gilt bronze handles.
Some two dozen printed books and one manuscript were received as gifts to the Royal Library.
The manuscript is an autograph fair copy by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Master of The Queen’s Music, of
the carol Lullay, my child, and weep no more (reproduced opposite), composed for HM The Queen and
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in December 2004; a recording of its performance by the Choir of the
Chapel Royal was also presented.
Printed books acquired included Brooks Richards’s Secret Flotillas: clandestine sea operations,
1940–1944, two volumes, presented by Sir Andrew Turnbull, Secretary of the Cabinet; M.R.D. Foot’s
SOE in France (rev. ed. 2004), presented by the Cabinet
Office; HRH The Duke of Edinburgh’s Thirty Years
On and Off the Box Seat (2004), and HRH Princess
Michael of Kent’s The Serpent and the Moon: two rivals
for the love of a Renaissance king (2004), the latter two
presented by the authors. The Royal Library also
received various sets of proof coins from the Royal
Mint, including those commemorating the centenary
of the entente cordiale with France.
A pastel portrait of Robin Tudsbery (1919 – 45),
by Francis Dodd, was presented to HM The Queen by
Miss Fiona Pearson. Five items were acquired by
HM The Queen: Sir Thomas Lawrence’s Study of
the head of George IV, in black, red and white chalks
(reproduced on p. 34); two open-bite etchings by
Norman Ackroyd of Balmoral and Loch Muick; a penand-ink view of Holyroodhouse by James Stewart; and
a Morel and Seddon miniature design for the interior
decoration of George IV’s new apartments at Windsor.
Sèvres vase, 1779.
This central vase of a garniture of three was purchased by
HM The Queen during 2004. The companion vases were
acquired by George IV in 1817.
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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Lullay, my child, and weep no more, 2004.
Sir Peter, appointed Master of The Queen’s Music in March 2004, composed this carol as ‘a little present for the Queen’.
The manuscript score was presented to HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in December 2004. The first
performance of the carol was given in the Chapel Royal, by the choir of the Chapel Royal, on 2 January 2005.
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An album of photographs belonging to Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII),
c.1913 – 14, was purchased by HM The Queen. A collection of 221 glass-plate negatives and other
material relating to royal subjects from the Bassano Studio were presented anonymously, and an album
commemorating King Edward VII’s visit to France in 1904 was presented by President and Madame
Chirac. Four boxes of albums and loose photographs were transferred from the office of the late Princess
Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. Photographs were received from staff and former staff, from other Royal
Household offices, and from members of the public.
Records transferred to the Royal Archives from Household Departments and Household Offices of
Members of the Royal Family included Master of the Household’s Office files (1956 – 99), files from the
Earl and Countess of Wessex’s Office (1979 – 2001), files of the Superintendent of the Palace of
Holyroodhouse (1951 – 93), Lord Chamberlain’s Office correspondence (1981), and the Central
Chancery annual report (1995). Samples of condolence messages and books following the death of Queen
Elizabeth The Queen Mother and samples of letters and cards to HM The Queen on her Golden Jubilee
were also transferred. Other records received included copies of eleven letters from Queen Alexandra to
Lord Ranksborough, 1904 – 21 (presented by Jean Bray), and a letter from Adolphus, Duke of
Cambridge, 1846 (presented by HM Revenue & Customs).
Sir Thomas Lawrence, Study of the head of George IV, c.1820.
This chalk study for the revised full-length portrait of the King in Coronation robes
was purchased by HM The Queen in June 2004. It is one of three known portrait
drawings by Lawrence of George IV, all of which are now in the Royal Collection.
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A set of fine bone china
coffee cups and saucers
inspired by the guilloché
enamelling characteristic of
many of the Fabergé pieces
in the Royal Collection.
TRADING ACTIVITIES
GROUP RESTRUCTURING
On 1 April 2004 the Royal Collection Trust (RCT) assumed responsibility from Royal Collection
Enterprises Limited (RCEL) for admitting visitors to the official residences of HM The Queen and the
official residence of HRH The Prince of Wales. RCEL continues to act as agent of the Trust in managing
the admission of visitors to the official residences. As a result of the group restructuring, HM Revenue
& Customs confirmed that with effect from 1 April 2004 the RCT met the conditions for cultural
exemption in respect of its admissions income. While this has increased the amount of irrecoverable VAT,
the effect of cultural exemption has been to generate net additional funds for the RCT amounting
to £1,279,000 in 2004 – 5. The restructuring of the group also enabled the RCT to implement procedures
to obtain Gift Aid relief on admissions to the official residences. In 2004 – 5 this has generated additional
funds for the RCT of £390,000.
In the light of the Government decision to vary the conditions for Gift Aid relief on day admissions
from 1 April 2006, active consideration is now being given to whether some of this valuable additional
income stream may be retained under the new arrangements.
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R E TA I L
The Royal Collection’s retail activities have experienced extremely difficult market conditions during the
year, mainly as a result of the strength of sterling against the dollar and lower numbers of US visitors.
In recent years, retail performance has been boosted by sales of merchandise linked to key royal events
(the Golden Jubilee in 2002 and the Anniversary of the Coronation in 2003). The absence of such an
event in 2004 inevitably affected sales of items such as commemorative china. Overall retail sales for the
year were £7,012,000 (2003 – 4: £7,692,000).
Other factors which contributed to a dilution in the average spend per visitor included a noticeable
change in the visitor mix at Windsor Castle, with an increase in children’s groups. Overall, there was a
reduction in sales of higher value items and greater interest in food and small souvenir items.
Sales in the Gallery shops continue to be closely linked to visitor numbers, which overall were
lower than the previous year. However, off-street trade improved in the second half of the year, with a
All the ingredients for a traditional Christmas: gifts offered for sale to visitors to the royal residences
during the run up to the festive season.
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strong Christmas performance at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, and increased footfall at
Holyroodhouse after the opening of the new Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh.
With little expectation of a significant recovery in overseas visitor numbers in the short term, steps
continue to be taken to maximise off-site business. Attendance at trade fairs in Europe and the USA has
produced useful new distribution outlets for Royal Collection merchandise and the outlook for the
wholesale business in 2005 is more encouraging. The relaunch of the online shop in April 2005, which is
not dependent on fluctuations in tourism, should rekindle interest in distance shopping and provide a
platform for selling commemorative merchandise linked to royal events.
C AT E R I N G
In April 2004 a new café at the Palace of Holyroodhouse opened its doors to the public. Created in the
nineteenth-century former coach house in the Mews Courtyard, it offers a selection of dishes, freshly
made on the premises. Whenever possible, ingredients are obtained from local companies, many of whom
supply HM The Queen and members of the Royal Family when in residence. The light and airy
conservatory-style interior accommodates 100, and during warm weather visitors are able to eat outside,
with the addition of a further 120 seats. An attractive sitting-out area to the rear of the café offers
spectacular views of Salisbury Crags and Arthur’s Seat. In its first year of trading the café generated sales
income of £329,000.
PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES
Reproduction rights for the use of images of works from the Royal Collection generated an income of
£226,000. Photography for several in-house projects was undertaken and photographic material supplied
for use in exhibition catalogues and other publications.
Photographic Services exhibited at the Picture Buyers’ Fair in London and, in conjunction with the
Publisher, at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004.
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FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
INCOMING RESOURCES
The summarised financial statements set out on pages 41 to 42 indicate that the Royal Collection
increased incoming resources by £2,041,000 (10%), from £20,550,000 to £22,591,000 in 2004 – 5.
After a difficult year in 2003 – 4, the outlook for 2004 – 5 appeared more encouraging. However, while
visitor numbers did in fact achieve strong growth in the first quarter of 2004 – 5, the performance over the
remainder of the year was extremely variable at most locations, and visitor numbers for the year were
disappointing. In addition to a slower than expected recovery in overseas tourism, the continued strength
of sterling against the dollar was another contributory factor.
Although overall visitor numbers were therefore 39,000 (2%) lower, at 1,797,000 in 2004 – 5,
admissions income increased by £2,438,000 (20%), from £12,213,000 to £14,651,000. This growth is
largely attributable to the combined effects of the group restructuring (for details of which see p. 35),
increased admission charges and Gift Aid relief on admission charges.
For the same reasons, the contribution from retail activities diminished during the year, with retail,
publishing and other income down by £305,000, from £7,876,000 to £7,571,000.
C H A R I TA B L E E X P E N D I T U R E
The main components of charitable expenditure are staff costs (£6,885,000), which increased on average
by 4.4% in 2004 – 5, and depreciation on The Queen’s Galleries (£971,000).
Expenditure on curatorial activities during the year increased by £262,000 (6%), from £4,090,000 to
£4,352,000.
NET OUTGOING RESOURCES AND CASHFLOW
The Trust’s net outgoing resources after deducting curatorial expenses reduced by £775,000,
from £1,230,000 to £455,000. As a result, bank borrowings should have reduced by £0.5 million, from
£13.5 million to £13 million, but, due to an agreed deferral of amounts payable to the Royal Household
Property Section until early 2005– 6, bank borrowings reduced by £1.2 million, to £12.3 million at
31 March 2005.
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INCOME AND ADMISSION NUMBERS FOR THE YEAR
Admission numbers
2004–5
2003–4
000
000
2004–5
£000
2003–4
£000
Windsor Castle and Frogmore House
– admissions
– shop sales
7,574
2,088
6,617
2,145
937
881
Buckingham Palace Summer Opening
– admissions
– shop sales
3,409
1,745
2,870
1,992
295
315
The Queen’s Gallery
– admissions
– shop sales
738
1,084
761
1,264
111
159
The Royal Mews
– admissions
– shop sales
533
659
392
653
119
117
Clarence House
– admissions
– shop sales
223
213
197
310
42
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1,784
597
1,376
678
293
317
Off-site retail income
955
650
Publishing
179
184
Photographic services
226
296
Gift Aid
390
–
Other income
194
165
22,591
20,550
1,797
1,836
Palace of Holyroodhouse
– admissions
– shop sales
F I V E -Y E A R C O M PA R I S O N
2000–1
£000
2001–2
£000
2002–3
£000
2003–4
£000
2004–5
£000
10,977
10,212
13,050
12,213
14,651
Retail income
5,869
5,496
9,756
7,692
7,341
Curatorial expenses
2,729
2,607
3,287
4,090
4,352
Net incoming resources/(outgoing)
1,393
970
2,524
(1,230)
(455)
Capital expenditure
7,423
12,355
3,187
1,194
390
Visitor Performance Indicators
Visitor numbers (000)
1,735
1,476
1,918
1,836
1,797
Admissions income per visitor
£6.33
£6.92
£6.80
£6.65
£8.15
Retail spend per visitor (on-site only)
£3.38
£3.51
£4.48
£3.84
£3.55
Admissions income (including Gift Aid)
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SUMMARISED FINANCIAL
STATEMENTS
I N D E P E N D E N T A U D I T O R S ’ S TAT E M E N T T O T H E
T R U S T E E S O F T H E R O YA L C O L L E C T I O N T R U S T
We have examined the summarised financial statements set out on pages 41 to 42 which are nonstatutory accounts prepared for the purpose of inclusion in the charity’s Annual Report.
This statement is made solely to the charity’s Trustees, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our
engagement letter dated 2 June 2003. Our work has been undertaken so that we might state in this report
those matters we are required to state by the terms of our engagement 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
and the charity’s Trustees, as a body, for our work, for this statement, or for the opinions we have formed.
Respective Responsibilities of Trustees and Auditors
The board are responsible as Trustees and Directors for the preparation of the summarised financial
statements. We have agreed to report to you, the Trustees, on their consistency with the statutory Annual
Report and Accounts, on which we reported on 8 June 2005.
We also read the other information contained in the summarised financial statements and consider the
implications for our report if we become aware of any apparent mis-statements or material
inconsistencies with the summarised financial statements.
Basis of Opinion
We have carried out the procedures we consider necessary to ascertain whether the summarised financial
statements are consistent with the statutory accounts from which they have been prepared.
Opinion
In our opinion, the summarised financial statements are consistent with the statutory accounts for the
year ended 31 March 2005.
KPMG LLP
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Chartered Accountants
London
Registered Auditor
8 June 2005
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S U M M A RY C O N S O L I DAT E D S TAT E M E N T O F F I N A N C I A L AC T I V I T I E S
for the year ended 31 March 2005
2005
£000
2004
£000
INCOMING RESOURCES
Activities to further the charity’s objectives:
14,651
12,213
7,571
226
141
7,876
296
164
Investment income
22,589
2
20,549
1
Total incoming resources
22,591
20,550
6,914
321
670
6,596
303
587
7,905
7,486
9,517
4,352
290
369
9,358
4,090
–
327
14,528
13,775
613
519
23,046
21,780
Admissions
Activities to generate funds:
Retail and publishing
Photographic services
Other
RESOURCES EXPENDED
Cost of generating funds:
Retail and publishing
Photographic services
Support costs
Charitable expenditure:
Admissions
Curatorial expenses
Donation
Management and administration
Interest payable
Total resources expended
Net movement in funds
(455)
(1,230)
Fund balances at 1 April 2004
10,663
11,893
Fund balances at 31 March 2005
10,208
10,663
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S U M M A RY C O N S O L I DAT E D A N D T R U S T B A L A N C E S H E E T
as at 31 March 2005
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
Fixed asset investments
Current assets
Stock
Debtors
Cash at bank and in hand
2005
£000
2004
£000
23,522
–
24,717
_
1,718
705
214
1,620
739
206
2,637
2,565
Creditors: amounts falling due
within one year
(12,951) (13,619)
Net current liabilities
(10,314) (11,054)
Total assets less current liabilities
13,208
13,663
Creditors: amounts falling due after
more than one year
(3,000)
(3,000)
Net assets
10,208
10,663
581
9,348
279
621
9,428
614
10,208
10,663
Income funds
Restricted
Unrestricted
Capital reserve
These summarised financial statements are a summary of information extracted from the annual statutory
accounts. 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 Administrator,
Stable Yard House, St James’s Palace, London, SW1A 1JR.
The annual statutory accounts were approved on 8 June 2005 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 8 June 2005
and were signed on their behalf by:
Sir John Guinness
Trustee
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Mr Alan Reid
Trustee
EXHIBITIONS AND LOANS
R O YA L C O L L E C T I O N
EXHIBITIONS
The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
George III & Queen Charlotte: Patronage,
Collecting and Court Taste
26 March 2004 – 9 January 2005
485 exhibits (paintings, miniatures, insignia,
archive material, printed books and manuscripts,
drawings, pastels, watercolours, prints, fans,
furniture, ceramics, sculpture, silver, clocks,
personal jewellery, musical instruments,
gems and jewels)
Equanimity: A Holographic Portrait of
Her Majesty The Queen
17 July – 3 October 2004
Holographic work by Chris Levine, commissioned
by the States of Jersey to celebrate 800 years of
loyalty to the Crown
Enchanting the Eye: Dutch Paintings
of the Golden Age
11 February – 30 October 2005
51 oil paintings
Treasures from the Royal Collection
11 February 2005 – 8 January 2006
280 exhibits (paintings, miniatures, furniture,
clocks, ceramics, silver, Fabergé, gems and
jewels and printed books)
The Ball Supper Room, Buckingham Palace
31 July – 26 September 2004
33 exhibits (3 oil paintings, 3 watercolours,
2 busts, 8 musical instruments, 4 costumes,
4 music stands, 2 music scores, 2 facsimiles
of music scores, 3 framed programmes and
souvenirs from The Prince of Wales’s musical
events at Buckingham Palace, 1 gold disk
and 1 feather handscreen)
The Ball Room, Buckingham Palace
Display of Insignia
31 July – 26 September 2004
52 items of insignia and 6 mantles
The Queen’s Gallery, Palace
of Holyroodhouse
Enchanting the Eye: Dutch Paintings
of the Golden Age
14 May – 7 November 2004
51 oil paintings
Holbein to Hockney: Drawings from
the Royal Collection
25 November 2004 – 6 March 2005
75 drawings and watercolours
Watercolours and Drawings from the Collection
of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
18 March – 25 September 2005
73 drawings, watercolours and prints
The Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle
Treasures from the Royal Library and The Stuarts
27 September 2003 – 3 October 2004
88 exhibits (29 drawings, 2 limnings,
1 watercolour, 7 miniatures, 30 prints, 3 albums,
14 books and 2 treatises)
Treasures from the Royal Library and
Queen Alexandra and the Art of Photography
9 October 2004 – 24 April 2005
53 exhibits (6 drawings, 10 watercolours,
1 sketch book, 8 photographs, 7 albums,
9 prints, 4 copy prints, 1 portfolio, the ‘Kinora’
viewer, 4 programmes of films seen by
Queen Alexandra, pieces from a tea service
and 1 trinket box)
COMBINED LOANS TO
EXTERNAL EXHIBITIONS
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Encounters: the Meeting of Asia and Europe,
1500– 1800
23 September – 5 December 2004
1 painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller
1 folio from the Padshahnama
A nautilus cup by Nikolaus Schmidt
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Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth and
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Stubbs and the Horse
14 November 2004 – 6 February 2005
13 March – 29 May 2005
2 paintings by George Stubbs
1 print by Peter Mazell after George Stubbs
Palazzo Giustiniani, Rome
Antonio Canaletto 1726– 1746:
Il Trionfo della Veduta
11 March – 19 June 2005
2 paintings by Giovanni Antonio Canal,
called Canaletto
10 drawings by Giovanni Antonio Canal,
called Canaletto
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Our Highland Home: Victoria and Albert in Scotland
18 March – 5 June 2005
1 painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
3 watercolours by Carl Haag
2 watercolours by Kenneth MacLeay
2 watercolours by Sir William Charles Ross
1 watercolour by Queen Victoria
1 watercolour by J. Ferdinand Rothbart
8 dolls dressed by Queen Victoria and
Baroness Lehzen
The Holburne Museum of Art, Bath
Pictures of Innocence: Portraits of Children
from Hogarth to Lawrence
22 March – 19 June 2005
1 painting by Johann Zoffany
2 miniatures by Richard Cosway
1 miniature by Ozias Humphry
1 pastel by Jean-Etienne Liotard
1 drawing by an anonymous artist
The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, London
Talking Peace: the Somerset House Conference Paintings
20 May – 25 July 2004
2 paintings by Pantoja de la Cruz
Hartenfels Castle, Torgau
Faith and Power: Saxony in Reformation Europe
24 May – 10 October 2004
1 painting by Jean Perréal
The Bowes Museum, County Durham
Boudin, Monet and the Sea Painters of Normandy
29 May – 30 August 2004
1 painting by William Powell Frith
Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie,
Frankfurt am Main
Pan and Syrinx: an Erotic Chase. Depictions
by Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Brueghel the Elder
and their Contemporaries
25 June – 22 August 2004
1 painting by a follower of Peter Paul Rubens
The National Portrait Gallery, London
G. F. Watts: Portraits, Fame and Beauty
in Victorian Society
14 October 2004 – 9 January 2005
1 painting by George Frederick Watts
The Royal Academy of Art, London
William Nicholson: British Painter and Printmaker
30 October 2004 – 23 January 2005
1 painting by William Nicholson
PAINTINGS
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Pontormo, Bronzino and the Medici: the Transformation
of the Renaissance Portrait
20 November 2004 – 13 February 2005
1 painting by Agnolo Bronzino
The Tower of London
Prisoners of the Tower
26 April – 5 September 2004
1 miniature by Hans Holbein the Younger
Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara
Joshua Reynolds: the Creation of Celebrity
13 February – 1 May 2005
2 paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds
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The Powysland Museum, Welshpool
Caroline Mathilde: British Princess, Danish Queen
1 May – 30 August 2004
1 painting by Jens Juel and 1 miniature
by Carl Daniel Voigts
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Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Memling’s Portraits
14 February – 15 May 2005
1 painting by Hans Memling
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Georges de la Tour
7 March – 29 May 2005
1 painting by Georges de la Tour
The National Portrait Gallery, London
Off the Beaten Track: Three Centuries of
Women Travellers
7 July – 31 October 2004
A work table from the Sandwich Islands
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Palace and Mosque: Masterpieces from
the V&A’s Islamic Art Collection
18 July 2004 – 6 February 2005
A Turkish embroidered silk hanging
WORKS OF ART
Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
Silver and the Church: Treasures from
London Churches
19 April – 15 May 2004
A feathered flagon
A chalice and paten by Robert Smythier
The University of Leeds
Centenary Exhibition
22 April – 23 July 2004
The academic robes of Queen Elizabeth
The Queen Mother
Harrow Arts Centre
National Marquetry Exhibition
22 May – 29 May 2004
A marquetry panel
Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Antarctic Heroes: the Race to the South Pole
28 May – 26 October 2004
Captain Scott’s ‘Union’ flag
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Musée National des Beaux-Arts, Quebec
and Dahesh Museum, New York
Charles Cordier 1825–1905: l’autre et l’ailleurs
2 February – 2 May 2004
10 June – 6 September 2004
12 October 2004 – 9 January 2005
2 busts by Charles Cordier
Kensington Palace, London
The Queen’s Working Wardrobe
23 July 2004 – 26 June 2005
10 outfits from HM The Queen’s wardrobe
A silver-gilt mace
Norwich Cathedral Treasury
East Anglian Silver 1565–1705
23 September – 17 October 2004
A silver beaker by Elizabeth Haslewood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Tapestries and Silverwork from the Colonial Andes
27 September – 12 December 2004
A Peruvian silver-gilt tray
Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana
Queen of Sheba: Legend and Reality
17 October 2004 – 13 March 2005
Second-century BC bronze head
Musée Royal d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels
Le Table du Prince: le service d’Orléans
en porcelaine de Tournai
20 October 2004 – 20 February 2005
Five pieces of Tournai porcelain
Coalport China Museum, Coalbrookdale
Caughley in Colour
18 March – 30 October 2005
2 pieces of Caughley porcelain
Höchstädt Castle
The Battle of Blenheim
1 July – 7 November 2004
A Blenheim rent banner
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PRINT ROOM
Albertina Museum, Vienna and
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640): the Drawings
14 September– 5 December 2004
14 January – 3 April 2005
3 drawings by Peter Paul Rubens
Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
The Biggest Draw
15 September – 15 December 2004
1 drawing by Leonardo da Vinci
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Primatice, maitre de Fontainebleau: l’Italie à
la cour de France
22 September 2004 – 3 January 2005
1 drawing by Francesco Primaticcio
National Gallery, London
Raphael: from Urbino to Rome
20 October 2004 – 16 January 2005
1 drawing by Giovanni Santi
1 drawing by Pietro Perugino
3 drawings by Raphael
Museo di Palazzo Poggi, Bologna
The Body on Stage: Anatomy and the Representation
of the Body from Leonardo to the Enlightenment
10 December 2004 – 20 March 2005
7 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
The Triumph of Watercolour: the Early Years of
the Royal Watercolour Society, 1805– 1850
2 February – 24 April 2005
5 watercolours, by Anthony Vandyke Copley
Fielding, James Stephanoff, John Frederick Tayler,
John Varley and Edward Henry Corbould
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
The Human Body in Art and Science
3 March – 22 May 2005
2 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci
Museo Civico dell’Arte, Modena
Storie dipinte: Nicolo dell’Abate et la pittura del
Cinquecento tra Modena e Parigi
20 March – 19 June 2005
1 drawing by Nicolo dell’Abate
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Galleria Nazionale dell’ Umbria, Perugia
Perugino il divin pittore
28 February – 9 May 2004
2 drawings by Perugino and 1 drawing
attributed to Perugino
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes
Watteau et les fêtes galantes
6 March – 14 June 2004
4 watercolours by Bernard Picart
National Gallery, London
Dürer and the Virgin in the Garden
24 March – 20 June 2004
1 drawing by Albrecht Dürer
R O YA L L I B R A R Y
Silver Museum Sterckshof, Antwerp
and Paleis Het Loo, Apeldoorn
Joseph-Germain Dutalis (1780– 1852):
Silversmith of King Willem I of the Netherlands
7 September – 28 November 2004
18 December 2004 – 13 March 2005
2 items of insignia
Niedersächsische Staats-und
Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Eine Welt allein ist nicht genug: Großbritannien,
Hannover und Goettingen, 1714–1837
20 March – 20 May 2005
1 printed book (the Mainz Psalter)
R O YA L P H O T O G R A P H
COLLECTION
National Gallery of Art, Washington and
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
All the Mighty World: the Photographs of
Roger Fenton, 1852 –1860
17 October 2004 – 2 January 2005
1 February – 24 April 2005
4 photographs by Roger Fenton
STAFF OF THE ROYAL
COLLECTION
EXTERNAL APPOINTMENTS
Robert Ball: Member of the Executive Committee,
the National Benevolent Society of Watch and Clock
Makers; Member of Council, the British Watch
and Clock Makers’ Guild; Trustee of the British
Horological Institute Museum Trust.
Martin Clayton: Member of the Dal Pozzo
Catalogue Committee, the UK Print Curators’
Forum, and the Ente Raccolta Vinciana.
Paul Cradock: Chairman, the National Benevolent
Society of Watch and Clock Makers; Trustee of
the British Horological Institute Museum Trust;
Secretary, the British Watch and Clock Makers’
Guild.
Alan Donnithorne: Visiting Professor at
Camberwell College of Arts.
Christopher Lloyd: Member of the Advisory
Council for the Hamilton Kerr Institute
(University of Cambridge) at Whittlesford;
International Editorial Adviser for the Journal of
the History of Collections; Member of the Advisory
Board for Source Notes in the History of Art; Member
of the Visual Arts Advisory Committee of the
British Council; President of the Oxford Art
Society Associates; Judge for the William Berger
Prize for British Art History.
Jonathan Marsden: Member of the Executive
Committee, The Georgian Group; Member of
Council, the Furniture History Society; Member
of the Collections Committee, the Royal College
of Music; Trustee of the Household Cavalry
Museum Trust.
David Rankin-Hunt: Norfolk Herald Extraordinary;
Curatorial Adviser to the Berkshire Yeomanry
Museum Trust; Deputy Inspector of Regimental
Colours; Deputy Inspector of RAF Badges; Trustee
of the Guards’ Museum; Archivist and Librarian of
the Order of St John, Priory of Wales.
Hugh Roberts: Chairman of the Arts Panel,
the National Trust; Member of Council, the
Attingham Trust; Trustee of the Historic Royal
Palaces Trust, the Harewood House Trust and the
Cobbe Collection Trust; Member of the St George’s
Chapel Windsor Fabric Advisory Committee.
Jane Roberts: Member of the Dal Pozzo Catalogue
Committee, the Ente Raccolta Vinciana, the
Editorial Advisory Board of the Master Drawings
Association, the Roxburghe Club, and the Council
of Management of the Windsor Festival; Governor
of the British Institute of Florence.
Richard Thompson: Secretary of the Furniture
Section, UK Institute for Conservation.
Shaun Turner: Lecturer in Woodwork and
Cabinetmaking, Hammersmith and Fulham College.
David Wheeler: External examiner of BA and MA
degrees in Furniture Restoration and Conservation,
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College.
Bridget Wright: Honorary Editor of the Annual
Report of the Society of the Friends of St George’s
and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter.
S TA F F N U M B E R S
The Pictures Section had ten full-time and three
part-time members of staff throughout the year,
supported by two volunteers.
The Works of Art Section had 15 full-time and
1 part-time member of staff, supported by
2 volunteers. Henrietta Hudson and Paul Briggs left
the Department. Two furniture restoration students
from West Dean College and one from Stockholm
undertook work placements in the cabinet-making
workshop at Marlborough House, and a conservation
student from the City & Guilds of London Art
School worked for three months in the gilding
workshop.
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The Library and Print Room (including the
Exhibitions Section and the Assistant Curator at
the Palace of Holyroodhouse) had eighteen full-time
and two part-time members of staff, supported by
one long-term volunteer working in the Royal
Library and Bindery, four short-term volunteers in
the Print Room and one at The Queen’s Gallery,
Holyroodhouse. Three students from Camberwell
College of Art worked on the conservation of maps
and architectural plans for two weeks.
The Royal Photograph Collection had two
full-time members of staff throughout the year,
supported by one volunteer.
The Royal Archives at Windsor had five full-time
and two part-time staff throughout the year,
supported by eight part-time volunteers and the
full-time services of two members of the Paper
Conservation team.
The Database Section had seven full-time and one
part-time member of staff, and the IT section four
staff. The section supported two placements from
Leicester University’s Museums course from June
to August.
Royal Collection administrative and visitor
operations staff were as follows
(2003 – 4 in brackets):
Windsor Castle 120 (121)
Buckingham Palace and Clarence House 101 (91)
Palace of Holyroodhouse 44 (50)
Central Retail and Warehousing 16 (16)
Public Relations and Marketing 5 (5)
Publishing 2 (2)
Education 4 (3)
Photographic Services 7 (8)
Finance and Administration 12 (12)
S TA F F T R A I N I N G
Staff from all sections of the Royal Collection
undertake an average of two to three days’ training
each year. The training needs of individuals are
generally identified as part of the annual review
process, but training is also linked to specific
curatorial, conservation or commercial initiatives.
As an example of this kind of initiative, guided
tours by wardens have now been introduced at
several sites. The popularity of this method of
interpretation has led to a significant increase in
the number of training days organised and
undertaken by Curatorial and Education section
staff. Members of staff have also taken part in
courses on the safe lifting of heavy objects, towerscaffold safety and the safe use of equipment and
general management, and they have helped train
staff from other departments of the Royal
Household in the handling and care of the
Collection. Further activity in the Curatorial and
Conservation sections is summarised below.
Alice Bircher attended a courier training day at
the National Gallery of Scotland.
Irene Campden and Philippa Jones attended
the annual Conference of the British Association
of Paper Historians; lectures and masterclasses
by the Society of Bookbinders (on Chemise and
Girdle Bindings, Vellum Bindings and Leather in
Conservation) and by Designer Binders on Japanese
Paper and calligraphy and the L-4 Leather forum
organised by Cotswold Bookbinders.
Paul Carter attended a part-time eight-week
course on ‘Art at the Tudor and Stuart Courts’ at
the City University.
Pam Clark attended the annual conference of
the Society of Archivists.
Deborah Clarke attended a study day and research
seminar on ‘Rembrandt to Vermeer’ and ‘Enchanting
the Eye’ and a courier training day (in both cases at
the National Gallery of Scotland).
Martin Clayton attended a conference at
the National Gallery on Raphael.
Melanie Edwards attended the National Trust
Housekeeping study days in January.
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Megan Gent attended the annual conference of
the Society of Archivists.
Jill Kelsey attended a seminar sponsored by the
Society of Archivists on electronic records
management.
Jonathan Marsden attended a study day at Versailles
on Houdon, a symposium at the Wallace Collection
on Boucher and another at the Henry Moore
Institute, Leeds, on Renaissance relief sculpture.
Simon Metcalf attended a UK Institute for
Conservation metals section meeting at the
Museum of London and a study day on seventeenthcentury armour at the Tower of London, as well as
contributing to a study day on brassware at the
Victoria and Albert Museum.
Hugh Roberts and Simon Metcalf attended a
conference at Arundel Castle sponsored by the Yale
Centre for Studies in British Art entitled ‘Cabriole
and Combat: Great Furniture and Armour from the
Norfolk Collections’.
Jane Roberts attended the annual conference of
the International Advisory Committee of Keepers
of Public Collections of Graphic Art (IACKPCGA)
in Budapest.
James Smith attended a two-day IT Health and
Safety training course.
David Wheeler and Richard Thompson attended
the biennial International Symposium on Wood
and Furniture Conservation in Amsterdam.
Paul Miller attended the annual Citrix Conference
held in Edinburgh.
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STAFF LIST
as at 31 March 2005
DIRECTORATE
PICTURES
WORKS OF ART
Director of the Royal Collection
Sir Hugh Roberts, KCVO, FSA
Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures
Christopher Lloyd, CVO
Surveyor of The Queen’s Works of Art
Sir Hugh Roberts, KCVO, FSA
Assistant to the Director
Mrs Caroline de Guitaut, MVO
Assistant Surveyor of
The Queen’s Pictures
Miss Lucy Whitaker
Deputy Surveyor of The Queen’s
Works of Art
Jonathan Marsden, LVO
Assistant Curator and Loans
Officer (Pictures)
Miss Jennifer Scott
Assistant Curator and Loans Officer
(Works of Art)
Mrs Caroline de Guitaut, MVO
Senior Paintings Conservator
Rupert Featherstone, MVO
Assistant Curator
Matthew Winterbottom
Secretary to the Deputy Surveyor
of The Queen’s Works of Art
Mrs Kathryn Jones
Assistant Financial Accountant
Miss Bethan Robinson
Conservators
Mrs Karen Ashworth
Al Brewer
Mrs Claire Chorley
Mrs Adelaide Izat
Mrs Rosanna de Sancha
Credit Controller
Miss Juliette Wall
Framing and Exhibitions Conservator
Michael Field
Furniture Conservators
Richard Thompson, MVO
Shaun Turner
Cashier
Miss Jane Hayman
Framing and Exhibitions Technician
Miss Stephanie Carlton
Accounts Assistants
(Purchase Ledger)
Ali Ali
Miss Asmat Khanum
Paintings Conservation Administrator
Miss Nicola Swash
Finance Director
Michael Bourke, MVO, ACA
Financial Controller
Mrs Indra Jutlla, FCCA
Senior Management Accountant
Christopher Newton, ACCA
Management Accountant
Ian Foster, CIPFA
Accounts Assistant (part-time)
Mrs Ann Oates, RVM
Administrator and Assistant to
the Surveyors
David Rankin-Hunt, LVO, MBE, TD
Secretary/Receptionist
Miss Jemima James
Superintendent of the Royal Collection,
Hampton Court Palace
Christopher Stevens
Custodian of California Gardens Store,
Windsor
Anthony Barrett, RVM
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Senior Furniture Conservator
David Wheeler, MVO
Senior Gilding Conservator
Stephen Sheasby
Gilding Conservator
Peregrine Bruce-Mitford
Armourer and Metalwork Conservator
Simon Metcalf
Senior Horological Conservator
(Buckingham Palace)
Robert Ball, MVO
Horological Conservator
Paul Cradock
Horological Conservator
(Windsor Castle)
Steven Davidson
THE ROYAL LIBRARY AND
PRINT ROOM
Deputy Head of Book Conservation
Miss Irene Campden
ROYAL COLLECTION DATABASE
AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Librarian and Curator of
the Print Room
The Hon. Lady Roberts, CVO
Drawings Conservator
Julian Clare, RVM
Computer Systems Manager
Stephen Patterson, MVO
Exhibitions and Maintenance
Conservator
David Westwood, RVM
Assistant Computer Systems
Manager
Paul Miller
Paper Conservator
Mrs Megan Gent, RVM
IT Support Officer
James Smith
Archives Bookbinder
Ms Philippa Jones
IT Support Assistant
Tim Stocker
Conservation Mounter/Framer
Mrs Kathryn Stone
Inventory Clerk (Buckingham Palace)
Miss Melanie Edwards
General and Workshop Assistant
Martin Gray
Inventory Clerk (Windsor Castle)
Mrs Elaine Ward
ROYAL ARCHIVES
Senior Pictures Database Cataloguer
Miss Alexandra Buck
Secretary to the Librarian
and Office Administrator
Mrs Margaret Westwood
Bibliographer
Miss Bridget Wright, LVO
Assistant Bibliographer
Mrs Emma Stuart
Deputy Curator of the Print Room
Martin Clayton, MVO
Assistant Curator of the Print Room
Dr Susan Owens
Print Room Assistant
Mrs Rhian Wong
Print Room Secretary and
Administrator
Mrs Jean Cozens
Assistant Curator,
Palace of Holyroodhouse
Mrs Deborah Clarke
Exhibition Co-ordinator
Miss Theresa-Mary Morton, LVO
Exhibitions and Loans Assistant
Miss Alice Bircher
Exhibitions Secretary
Miss Annaleigh Kennard
Cassiano Project Assistant
Miss Panorea Alexandratos
Head of Paper Conservation
Alan Donnithorne, MVO
Head of Book Conservation
Roderick Lane, RVM
Registrar
Miss Pamela Clark, MVO
Deputy Registrar
Mrs Jill Kelsey, MVO
Assistant Registrar
Miss Allison Derrett, MVO
Office Administrator
Mrs Angeline Barker
Archives Assistant
Mrs Jennifer Hurley
Archives Attendant
Mrs Joan Taylor
Pictures Database Cataloguer
Miss Leonora Clark
Works of Art Database Cataloguers
Miss Julia Bagguley
Miss Beth Clackett
Books and Indexes Database Cataloguer
Paul Carter
Prints and Drawings Database Cataloguer
Miss Sabrina Mackenzie
Royal Photograph Collection
Database Cataloguer
Paul Stonell
ROYAL PHOTOGRAPH
COLLECTION
Curator of the Royal Photograph
Collection
Miss Frances Dimond, LVO
Deputy Curator of the Royal
Photograph Collection
Mrs Lisa Heighway
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ROYAL COLLECTON
ENTERPRISES LIMITED
RETAIL AND WAREHOUSING
HEAD OFFICE
Retail Director
Mrs Nuala McGourty
Managing Director
Michael Stevens, LVO, FCA
Head of Design
Mrs Katrina Munro
Assistant to the Managing Director
Miss Vicki Biermann
Production Controller
Ian Grant
PUBLIC RELATIONS AND
MARKETING
Senior Buyer
Mrs Charlotte Burton
BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE QUEEN’S GALLERY
AND THE ROYAL MEWS
Director of Public Relations
and Marketing
Miss Frances Dunkels
Buyer
Johan Verbruggen
Visitor Manager
Miss Kerry Bishop, MVO
Business Development Manager
Miss Rosemary Lightbody
Merchandisers
Mrs Melissa Chambers
Andrew Harrison
Operations Manager
Miss Helen Franklin
Press and Public Relations Officer
Miss Emma Shaw
Retail Co-ordinator
Miss Lucinda Gooch
Press and Public Relations Assistant
Mrs Joanna Eason
Retail Operations Administrator
Mrs Jacky Bowden
Marketing and Sales Assistant
Miss Gemma Elliott
Warehouse Manager
James Hoyle
PUBLISHING
Warehouse Administrator
Roger Freeman
Senior Wardens
Robert Daley
Miss Claire Johnson
Mrs Mary Money
Warehouse Operatives
Bernard Barfield
Trevor Cline
Patrick Donegan
Mrs Rossana Earles
Supervising Warden,
The Royal Mews
Ernie Kingston
Publisher
Mrs Jacky Colliss Harvey
Editor
Miss Marie Leahy
EDUCATION
PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES
Education Development Manager
Miss Marion Carlisle
Education Co-ordinator, Windsor Castle
Mrs Penelope Russell
Education Co-ordinator,
Buckingham Palace
Mrs Trish Popkin
Education Co-ordinator,
Palace of Holyroodhouse
Miss Charlotte Sutton
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Stephen Chapman
Mrs Eva Zielinska-Millar
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Head of Photographic Services
Miss Shruti Patel
Senior Picture Library Assistant
Miss Karen Lawson
Picture Library Assistant
Mrs Siân Cooksey
Picture Library Administrator
Miss Jody Butterworth
Photographer
Dominic Brown
Digital Imaging Assistant
Daniel Partridge
Visitor Office Administrator
Miss Caroline Reid
Staff Co-ordinator
Miss Alexandra Salisbury Jolly
Visitor Office Assistant
Holger Hein
Wardens
Miss Lucy Ash
Mrs Anita Banks
Mrs Elspeth Bayley
Peter Dyer
Miss Pamela Eden
Mrs Catherine Fyfield
Miss Carolyn Glover
Martin Harris
Mrs Fiona Kuznetsova
Miss Kathryn-Ann Martin
Brian Mortimer
Alan Nurse
Mrs Angela Rycroft
Martin Sumner
Wardens – Seasonal
Ms Amina Abdullahi
Colin Adams
Ms Marie Barenskie
Clive Bayard
Mrs Lynne Denham
Stephen Denham
Ms Ann Drinkwater
Mrs Sandra Dwelly
Mrs Sheila Edgar
Hanno Eigenbrod
Mrs Beatrix Ellerbrok
Andrew Hodges
Samuel Jackson
Brian McBride
Derek Ottowell
Mrs Heather Pettit
Ralph Pottinger
Dr Shalini Punjani
Mrs Monika Rubens
Liam Sims
Mrs Susan Swift
Mrs Diane Wakeman
Mrs Rachel Watson
Peter Wilson
Miss Stephanie Wooding
Wardens – Casual
Mrs Jenny Absalom
Miss Sarah Baldwin
George Banham
Miss Dorothy Barlow
Miss Hilary Bates
Ms Helen Beecher Bryant
Douglas Bell
Robert Castledine
Mrs Barbara Donne
Ms Juan Edwards
Miss Christine Erne
Miss Clarissa Fell
Vernon Goodwin
Miss Moira Hewitt
Mrs Helen Hollis
Mrs Janice Hook
John Leeds
Miss Maureen Maron
George Martin
Donald Masoperh
Mrs Rose Medlock
Michael Nash
Miss Margie Nolan
Miss Roselyn Pridmore
Miss Paula Ryeland
Miss Claire Swart
Mrs Patricia-Anne Thomas
Mrs Beverley Valentine
Retail Manager
Mrs Virginia Green
Assistant Retail Managers
Miss Amanda Jacobs
Jason Murray
Mark Randall
Retail Supervisor
Janet Russell
Retail Assistants
Thomas Ayers
Miss Teresa Conde Garcia
Mrs Penelope Dalziel-Smith
Kevin Dimmock
Ms Patricia Harrison
Miss Anahied Hatamian
Ms Teresa Head
Miss Amanda-Esther Idowu
Miss Amy Knapp
Francois Kriel
Miss Charlene Lorigan
Chun Hoe Lum
Mrs Claire McDougall
Miss Alyson McGreevy
Miss Sarah Marrs
Mrs Fiona Moore
Andrew Orrick
Mrs Yvonne Phelps
Miss Andrea Woolrych
Retail Assistants – Casual
Miss Kathryn Baldwin
Miss Katherine Davies
Miss Laura Henderson
Miss Iris Steinbauer
Ticket Sales and Information
Manager
Mark Fisher
Assistant Ticket Sales and
Information Manager
Kevin Foster
Ticket Sales and Information
Supervisors
Miss Lucy Allen
Miss Katy Bennett
Miss Janice Galvin
Simon Stevens
Education Assistant, Ticket Sales
and Information Office
Amy Watsham
Ticket Sales and Information
Assistants
Mark Campbell
Miss Zayba Drabu
Miss Juliette Duffey
Miss Hushvir Gill
Miss Sarah Halls
Mrs Amanda Kneller
Michal Kucharski
Miss Audrey Lawrence
Miss Joanne Lusher
Miss Louise Rayment
Miss Mandeep Sandhu
Miss Emma Stevens
Gareth Thomas
WINDSOR CASTLE
Visitor Manager
Andrew Moir, OBE, MVO
Visitor Operations Manager
Mrs Christine Taylor
Staff Operations Manager
Ms Christine McCosh
Retail Manager
Miss Jacqueline Clarke
Financial Administrator
Roger Freeman
Cashier
Mrs Valerie Bullett
Cashier – Casual
Miss Sarah Hamer
Visitor Office Administrator
Miss Victoria Standen
Staff Administrators
Miss Clare Skelly
Phillip Tinlin
ENGINE COURT SHOP
Manageress
Mrs Rosemary Osgood
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LOWER WARD SHOP
Senior Retail Assistant
Mrs Anne McGowan
Retail Assistant
Mrs Kathleen Gomm
MIDDLE WARD SHOP
Assistant Retail Manager
Mrs Susan Asbery
Senior Retail Assistant
Miss Frances Hoare
ADMISSIONS CENTRE
Ticket Office Manageress
Mrs Glenda Mangan
Senior Ticket Office Assistant
Mrs Karen Rhodes
Ticket Office Assistants
Mrs Janet Cary
Mrs Shirlee Pouncett
Visitor Services Assistants
Miss Sarah Banks
Miss Africa Calzón García
Cedric Chen
Mrs Ann Devitt
Mrs Kay Leach
Wan-Lim Lee
Mrs Judith Major
Mrs Elizabeth Mustafa
Frederick Otchere
Mrs Diane Smith
Ravi Sohanpal
Ms Sheryl Taylor-Horton
Mrs Huai Fiona Yan
Visitor Services Assistants – Casual
Brian Atkinson
Miss Nathalie Bikoro
Miss Katie Birch
Mrs Valerie Bullett
Mrs Jane Denman
Andrew Hill
Miss Asma Khan
Miss Ajit Matharu
Mrs Janet Maxwell
Miss Deborah Novell
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Ajay Sidhar
Miss Louise Skelly
Mrs Marit Stokes
Mrs Marjorie Wise
Duty Head Wardens
Mrs Claude-Sabine Bikoro
Henry Everist
John Phillips
John Williams
Wardens
Ms Heike Alfein
Miss Caroline Andrews
Mrs Kathryn Armstrong
Ms Susan Ashby
Laurence Asslinger
Gerald Bailey
Mrs Prue Beesley
Neil Crowther
Stanley Edwards
Mrs Joyce Facey
Miss Christine Fazey
Peter Girtley
Mrs Sarah Gunton
Gordon Haines
Miss Sophie Haynes
Peter Hicks
Richard Hisee
Mrs Rita Horner
Miss Emily Houghton
Ralph Leach
Ms Fiona McDonald
David Mason
Mrs Freda Mason
Brian Matthews
Miss Ada Mau
Ms Giulia Ovidi
Keith Parker, RVM
John Porter
Ian Purdy
Miss Josephine Redfern
Miss Bernadette Reid
Miss Amber Roberts
Miss Helen Roscoe
Mrs Lourdes Santos
Miss Amita Sharma
Mrs Ann Silver
Allan Smith
Christopher Taylor
Mrs Fatima Tennyson
Christopher Thomas
Christopher Tilly
Miss Simone Torry
Barry Ward, RVM
Miss Linda Ward
Mrs Carla Weston
Jeffrey Wilson
Joseph Wood
Peter Woodall
Derek Woodman
Miss Linda Wroth
Jeffrey Yalden
Auxiliary Wardens
John Airey, MBE
Robert Atcheson
Dennis Benford
Ric Bessford
Maurice Bevis
Mrs Valerie Brooks
David Buttimer
Len Chandler
Mrs Sheila Clancy
John Clayton
Miss Ellen Clegg
Peter Cockbain
Mrs Cherry Cooksey
Gio Corno
Geoffrey Cox
Mrs Angela Cripps
Kevin Cronin
Malcolm Davis
Mrs Caroline Dewell
John Dexter
Paul Dunham
Brian Dupe
David Emerson
John Fennell
Ms Rita Ford
Francis Franklin
Mrs Rena Franklin
James Ganley
Roy Gardner
Norman Garrett
Keith Gordon
Ronald Grant
Mrs Nancy Green, RVM
Mrs Jacqueline Haines
Brian Hall
Mrs Elizabeth Hayes
Alan Head
Mrs Brenda Herbert
John Hetherington
Kenneth Hole
Francis Holland, RVM
John Janes
Mrs Diana Jolley
Miss Margaret Jones
Nepal Kar
John Kelly
Mrs Margaret Lambeth
Mrs Audrey Lane
Miss Enda McArdle
Mrs Pat McGill
Mrs Catherine Martin
Ian Mumford
Geoffrey Murray
Ms Pearl Nodwell
Mrs Grace Norrell
Richard Payne
Bryan Percy
Mrs Patricia Pipe
Frank Poole
Malcolm Potter
Martin Potter
Robert Queen
Kenneth Read
Miss Margaret Relf
Rodney Richardson
Miss Margaret Robertson
Miss Molly Rudge
René Schurtenberger
Roger Taoka-Thompson
Mrs Mary Tapsall
Hugh Tomlinson
Bert Turner
Mrs Janet Waters
Anthony Wise
Ronald Wise
Mrs Patricia Wright
Security Cloakroom Assistant
John Rabbitt
Cleaner
Jonathan Taylor
Cleaner – Casual
Brian Jacobs
Deputy Head Warden
Miss Joanne Butcher
Wardens
Mrs Pilar Aran
Miss Gemma Clement
Miss Rosemary Croker
Miss Paula Davidson
Colin Dempster
Miss Jessica Evershed
Peter Holmes
Miss Harriette Jackson
Henry Lennox
Miss Carol Leslie
Bill McMinn
Brian Morley
Mrs Adele Morrison
Peter Whyte
Casual Visitor Services Assistants
Miss Julie Ballantyne
Dennis Deas
Gary Dougal
Mrs Lola Duncan
Harry Ferguson
Mrs Moira Hinton
Mrs Janet Mackay
Miss Carolyn New
Miss Shirley Scott
Miss Rachel Skilling
Miss Sharon Thomson
Miss Clair Wallace
Richard Watson
Andrew Young
Audio Tour Facilities Supervisor
Gareth Clingan
Retail Manager
Miss Shirley Duke
PALACE OF HOLYROODHOUSE
Superintendent
Geoffrey Mackrell
Operations Manager
Mrs June Williamson
Operations Assistant
Mrs Alison Gove
Assistant Retail Manager
Miss Clare Rowe
Christian Mayr
Ticket Sales Assistants
Miss Zoe Acock
Miss Jennifer Crossley
Financial Assistant
Miss Elaine Kelly
Café Manager
Iain Archibald
Assistant Café Manager
Miss Clare Ford
Sous Chefs
Miss Victoria McKechnie
Michael Watson
Café Assistants (permanent)
Miss Linda Archibald
Mr Scott Gibb
Mrs Tatiana Paterson
Café Assistants (casual)
Christopher Aitken
Miss Gemma Cruickshanks
Charles Nelson
Charlie Radcliffe
Casual Kitchen Porter
Sergi Migallon
Daily Lady
Mrs Doreen Fraser
Gallery Cleaners
Mrs Elinor Allen
Mrs Jean Ramsay
John Reid
Galley/Café Cleaner
Stuart Robertson
Leading Porter
Gary Robertson
Retail Assistants
Miss Shona Cowe
Miss Ruth Oggelsby
Miss Heather Wilson
Ticket Sales Supervisor
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