The gem of the Palace: Queen Victoria's Audience Room at Windsor Castle

• Autores: Hugh Roberts
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 151, Nº 1281, 2009, págs. 825-829
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The writer examines the interior of Queen Victoria's audience room at Windsor Castle in London. This room provided the setting, simultaneously formal and intimate, for the Queen to conduct official business when she was in residence in the Castle. It was also the last, the most elaborate, and the most highly finished of a series of projects undertaken by Prince Albert in collaboration with the sculptor, decorator, and architect John Thomas (1813–62). Although it is now somewhat altered, it is perhaps the best surviving but least known example of the Prince's mature taste in interior decoration, as well as being among the most carefully thought out, elaborate, and ingeniously constructed pieces of royal iconography in any British royal residence. The writer appraises in detail this now largely forgotten interior.