From Leonardo’s drawings to Rembrandt’s Mother, the royal collection includes some of the world’s greatest masterpieces
The Royal Collection Trust, founded in 1993, claims to hold art in trust for we the people. But if you want to know who really possesses it, look in a book that reproduces any of its hundreds of Leonardo da Vinci drawings – you will find it says: “copyright Her Majesty Elizabeth II.”
The Royal Collection faced crisis in 1992 when fire ravaged Windsor Castle, home to the Royal Library, which holds the greatest collection of Leonardo’s drawings on earth along with masterpieces by Raphael and Holbein. The Royal Library was spared – but the Royal Collection Trust was founded the next year and has done a lot to modernise the monarchy’s conservation and display of art.
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