a queen and 3 future kings

1 The sofa is part of a suite of gilt- wood furniture by Thomas Chippendale from about 1773. It is thought to have been commissioned by George III’s brother ( the Duke of Gloucester) and was in the Royal Collection by the reign of George IV. 2 There are two photographs in the room, one of the Prince of Wales and Prince Harry in a Zulu village in South Africa in 1997. A further photograph of Prince Harry stands on a side table. 3 A bronze bust of Princess Elizabeth made by William Lamb in 1933. A matching bust of Princess Margaret is on the opposite side of the room. 4 On the wall above the cabinet to the left of the sofa is a portrait painted in oil entitled Their Royal Highnesses The Princess Elizabeth and The Princess Margaret in Windsor Great Park. It was painted in 1945 by Frederic Whiting. 5 On the rear wall to the left of the window there is an oil on canvas painting entitled A Conversation Piece at Aintree: King George V and his Racing Manager. It dates from c. 1927- 30 and is by Walter Richard Sickert. Beneath this is a painting by Laurence Stephen Lowry entitled A Fylde Farm, 1943. 6 On the rear wall to the right of the window is an oil on canvas painting entitled When Homer Nods: Portrait of George Bernard Shaw by Augustus Edwin John, 1915. Beneath this is an oil on canvas painting entitled The Lighthouse, Newhaven by Duncan James Grant, c. 1939.

The Royal Family and the Middletons gather in the Morning Room at Clarence House, which was called the Breakfast Room in John Nash’s original design for the Duke of Clarence in 1825- 7