George’s taste for the oriental and the exotic was partly inspired by his mother, Queen Charlotte. As a little boy he would have seen Chinese nodding figures like the ones displayed here in his mother’s sitting room in Buckingham House (later Buckingham Palace).

Also returned to the Long Gallery is part of a suite of Indian furniture from c.1770, which originally belonged to Queen Charlotte. After her death in 1818 the chairs were sold. They were bought by George and displayed here in the Long Gallery. The monstrous dragon-like heads with curled trunks, bulging eyes and fanged mouths make the chairs especially appropriate for the Royal Pavilion.