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His Majesty The King has visited Royal Collection Trust’s Decorative Arts conservation workshop in London to hear from conservators about their work. The King viewed objects being conserved for the forthcoming exhibition The Edwardians: Age of Elegance, and tried his hand at applying gold leaf to a gilded dragon that will be displayed to visitors in Buckingham Palace’s East Wing.
The workshop’s expert staff combine centuries-old techniques with the latest technologies to conserve furniture, ceramics, sculpture, giltwood, and metalwork from the Royal Collection. This ensures that these objects can be enjoyed for generations to come and seen by the public in palaces, museums, and galleries across the UK and worldwide.
The King is Patron of Royal Collection Trust, a charity caring for the Royal Collection and welcoming visitors to the royal palaces. The Royal Collection is one of the world’s significant art collections, held in trust by The King for his successors and the nation. With over a million objects, it records the tastes of British kings and queens over the past 500 years, with many items still used today for their original purpose.
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