“My present role as Deputy Surveyor of The Queen’s Works of Art means that I’m responsible for all the decorative arts in the Royal Collection. This numbers around 700,000 works, including furniture, sculpture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, fashion, jewellery –in other words, anything three-dimensional.
The Royal Collection is one of the great European dynastic collections; one of the most important still in existence. It has been formed over the last 500