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Detail from showing paintings hanging on the wall of Buckingham House
Royal Portraiture

The Royal Collection holds royal portraits from visual works to decorative arts

KING GEORGE VI, KING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (1895-1952)

Princess Elizabeth (b.1926) with lilies, 1929

1929

RCIN 2999926

The Royal Collection also holds a unique collection of private portraits. This photograph was taken in 1929 by King George VI (r.1936–52), then Duke of York, and shows his three-year-old daughter, the future Queen Elizabeth II, playing in the garden by a bed of Madonna lillies.


    The income from your ticket contributes directly to The Royal Collection Trust, a registered charity. The aims of The Royal Collection Trust are the care and conservation of the Royal Collection, and the promotion of access and enjoyment through exhibitions, publications, loans and educational activities.