Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House contains all sorts of products for keeping a household spick and span. The house was designed to be as true to life as possible, so as well as ornate thrones and crown jewels, it holds tiny tins of furniture polish, cleaning powder, soap flakes and even boot polish.

The tins of ‘Nugget’ leather polish are less than 1 cm wide. The miniature housemaid was supplied with plenty of dishcloths, brooms and mops, a bucket, a dustpan and brush, a carpet sweeper and the most modern convenience of all – a hoover. The wooden kitchen floor even has a special slate border to make it easier to clean around the edges. The cleaning products all represented the companies which supplied the royal family in 1924, when the house was created, and some of them are still produced today.