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On Monday 22 January, Royal Collection Trust curators will participate in a series of interviews on BBC local radio.

Find out more about the lesser-known connections between the Royal Collection and regions across the United Kingdom below:

Full suit of Japanese armour [domaru]; brown and gold lacquer pieces linked with red and blue plaited silk ribbons. Comprising helmet, mask, shoulder pads, sleeves with gauntlets attached, thigh guards, shin guards, breast plate, back plate and skirt sect
BBC Radio Leeds

The Royal Armouries features a number of works on loan from the Royal Collection
BBC Radio Lincolnshire

An interview relating to the Royal Collection

DM 3280: the royal couple are rowed in the barge to join their children on board the 'Fairy'. A salute is fired. The Guard of Honour, which had lined the wrong route, is seen running back to the quay to wave to the Queen; signed & dated.
BBC Radio Jersey

A gift from Jersey presented to The Queen in 1957
BBC Radio Wiltshire

Vanessa Remington discusses the Royal Collection in this interview with BBC Radio Wiltshire.

A Bronze Age gold cup, formed from one sheet of gold and decorated with horizontal concentric corrugations, which continue downwards from the middle in a convex manner and upwards in a concave, terminating at the bottom around a central boss and flattenin
BBC Radio Cornwall

The Rillaton Cup is one of the rarest examples of Bronze age gold
BBC Radio Berkshire

Kathryn Jones discusses some of the key pieces on display at Windsor Castle
BBC Radio Leicester

Vanessa Remington discusses a Tudor painting with a link to Leicester

Streeter was appointed Serjeant-painter to Charles II in 1663 and seems to have worked as a journeyman-artist executing copies, decorative panels for palace interiors, barges and coaches, stage scenery and some landscapes. White Ladies Priory is now a
BBC Radio Shropshire

Vanessa Remington discusses a work from the Royal Collection that highlights Charles II's escape through Shropshire

Streeter was appointed Serjeant-painter to Charles II in 1663 and seems to have worked as a journeyman-artist executing copies, decorative panels for palace interiors, barges and coaches, stage scenery and some landscapes. White Ladies Priory is now a
BBC Hereford & Worcester

Vanessa Remington discusses a work from the Royal Collection that highlight Charles II's escape following the Battle of...
BBC Cumbria

Kathryn Jones discusses the Royal Collection in this interview with BBC Radio Cumbria.

Silver-gilt Baroque fountain with four spreading basins, repousse and chased with marine scenes and figures of Neptune, Amphitrite and infant tritons with sea-monsters, surmounted by a square column with figures of Neptune or nymphs in niches on
BBC Devon

Kathryn Jones discusses two magnificent gifts from the people of Devon now in the Royal Collection
BBC Radio Humberside

Between 2017 and 2021, various masterpieces from the Royal Collection will be displayed in Hull

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The income from your ticket contributes directly to The Royal Collection Trust, a registered charity. The aims of The Royal Collection Trust are the care and conservation of the Royal Collection, and the promotion of access and enjoyment through exhibitions, publications, loans and educational activities.