Treasures from the library

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Here lies buried treasure

Her Majesty takes you behind the scenes in this series of some of the UK’s most beautiful and prestigious libraries: including in the series so far, the Royal Library at Windsor Castle and The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. Meet the curators and learn about some of their library’s incredible artefacts, from hand-written manuscripts by the nation’s most treasured authors, to ancient books illuminated in stunning colours and glittering gold…

Treasures from the library

HM Queen Camilla explores precious books and manuscripts from prestigious UK libraries

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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

The Bodleian Library

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Alfred Tennyson, Poems

Windsor Castle Library

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Jane Austen, Volume the First

The Bodleian Library

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King Charles I’s copy of Shakespeare

Windsor Castle Library

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: How Watson Learned the Trick

Windsor Castle Library

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Dickens: To Be Read At Dusk

Windsor Castle Library

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One of Queen Victoria’s favourites: Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist

Windsor Castle Library

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Henry VIII’s Bible

Windsor Castle Library

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French Psalter: a poem by Princess Elizabeth

Windsor Castle Library

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