By the kind generosity of the Bowes-Lyon family, we are delighted to open this exhibition of the childhood books of the late Queen Elizabeth, wife of George VI, known to a generation as the Queen Mother.
The young Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon grew up dividing her time between her Hertfordshire home at St Paul's Walden Bury, just outside Hitchin, and Glamis Castle in Scotland. These books showcase an Edwardian childhood, both the educational and the entertaining, in all it's glorious illustration.