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    The BULLETIN

    Aug 14, 2020 3 minutes

    CULTURE

    Pantomime pictures

    Windsor Castle’s Waterloo Chamber is showing a different face after reopening earlier this summer. Hidden beneath a series of portraits by Thomas Lawrence since the Second World War, a set of 16 colourful pantomime characters has now been revealed to the public. It was in the Waterloo Chamber that Her Majesty The Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) and her sister Princess Margaret took part in a series of pantomimes in wartime, raising money for the Royal Household Wool Fund, which supplied yarn to make comforters for soldiers fighting at the Front. Teenage

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