Queen Camilla and Melania Trump Find Miniature Treasures at Doll's House

It's designed to be a good place for a residence for Queen Mary. If you look at the side, you'll have a bit of a space. And it has to work between one floor and the other. When was this done, this house? When was this finished? 1924. All the way to the 24th of 1924. It must have taken quite a bit of time to make all this. Three years. And the cross, which is extraordinary. So it's a life that's long taken. It's beautiful, yeah. This is the front. Yes, this is the main entrance. And they had probably the most famous holiday. How are you? I'm not that well. Keep going. Of course there's going to be 7,000 media folks. There's some upstairs. From where your position is there, then the principals will go ahead and we'll allow them all to one side. And then once they're in one little outfit, we will advance right to the end of the library and do them all. Welcome. In charge of all these treasures. With Lizzie, with Jim. So I'll leave you in Lizzie's capable hands. She'll be showing you more. First introduce the characters. Just have a look at that. It's incredible. They're all so beautifully bound, aren't they? They were all bound, yes, by their leading bookbinders at the end of the day in the 1920s. So the things that were 2020. In case I dropped it. This, I had to, with my very large handwriting, I had to write forward. This is very nice. It's very nice. And this was, I think this is, this is Tom's recipe of my recipe. Which we're quite poor. He's always asked about my roast chicken. It's gone into this book now, so it's there forever. It's that one. Oh, the grub. With the pictures, I had to have a very steady hand to be able to do it. And those are all in the, they're all in the gaps, aren't they? Which one was this one? This one is How Watson Land a Trick. It's the Sherlock Holmes story. Oh, this is one of the original. Let's see which, Sherlock. So how long would say the, the time that they made this? I would take, at the right I would have taken about a couple of minutes. And what about the book? The slightly longer. The tiny, tiny pen. The tiny. It's so tiny. And this Sherlock Holmes story book has been around for a long time. Brilliant. Absolutely. Thank you so much. And he finds that the portrait of George III can be replaced with a portrait because he had slight drawbacks. Yes. She was very young when George was born and of course he had met with the Scot in London before he had decided that he could make a living. She loved him. Such treasures. And the famous Sherlock. You have seen many copies. But the reason we are showing this one is because what is very difficult now is that without George IV this may never have happened. So Audubon came to London to try to draw more support for his ambitious project and he was walking around and giving very, very inspiring lectures. George IV, of course, decided to support the project. 151 subscribers joined immediately. And the book happened. So this is the library's copy because it's presumably the subscription copy of Audubon's book. It's an extraordinary book, isn't it? How many birds? Including many species that were not found. Yes. It's hand-finished. I never even dare touch it. It's extraordinary. It's very delicate. You get a bit nervous touching it. What a book. A very special guest. Nice to meet you. What are you doing? Do you want to tell me what you're doing? What are you doing? I'm making a story about the prophet that is here in Tecumseh. Oh, that's so nice. And you need to have a small book, correct? Yes. So they're trying to make them like the miniature book. There's been a lot of practice this week. We were practicing yesterday but we kept going outside to see what it was like. Oh, yes. That was very exciting, wasn't it? And what do you do? Do you do all of the same stories or do you come up with a story? We're doing different stories and coming up with different ideas of what the fox could do. And then we read it to each other. You have the class and you read to each other. And you need to put the pictures in so it's just a text. Is that a fox? Yes. It's beautiful. Very nice. How old are the kids? Six and three. Can you believe that? No, not really. So one of the great treasures of the Royal Library downstairs is this contrivance called the Whirligig. It was invented as a sort of painless way of kind of showing this book. We have here Leonardo's right sleeve and then these by Canaletto. And then here are two great woodcuts by Alfred Becherture. And then one of our great collections is the Portrait Drawings by Hans Holbein which we have over 80 of. Yes, yes. A miniature book. In fact, many of Leonardo's sketchbooks, there was one called Codex Foster which is only about that big. The room we're in was Queen Elizabeth I's walk-in gallery which was like a law gallery on wet days. And this is the amazingly well-preserved chimney piece. Especially in a great carving gallery. We have a few treasures here which are fabulous. So, next up, last photo of my room. Yeah, a nice swell. All those people over there. Big smile. We've got some chairs in the way. Do we need a pen please? Is that possible? Thank you so much. Toys. Wow. Look at that. I'm trying to find the right one. There's a photo map there, right? I'm just needing a pen. Is everyone holding their books up? Well done. Lovely. And Your Majesty, if I said you were ready, this way please. Thank you. Great book.