
Playing
Playing is an essential component of life for all young children, whether royal or not. It teaches them about the world and their own place in it and allows them to develop skills such as problem solving while also promoting creativity and independence.
Royal children played with many of the same types of toys as other children- dolls, jigsaws and train sets as well as miniature versions of adult objects like prams and wheelbarrows.
As in many families, toys used by royal children were frequently passed on from one child to the next as they were outgrown and also reused by subsequent generations.
FH Ayres
Rocking horse
FH Ayres
Rocking horse
Fortnum and Mason
Toy horse
Louis Vuitton
Train model
Chad Valley Ltd, Harborne
A Chad Valley jig-saw puzzle cut into whimsey bits
Henry Webb