Queen Mary’s Photo Albums: A Major Conservation Project
Jul 4, 2025
Discover how our paper conservation and bindery team are working to treat and conserve 33 albums and over 12,000 photographs that were arranged and captioned by Queen Mary, documenting her life from 1880 to 1952.
Queen Mary was consort to King George V, and these albums detail some of her official engagements and family gatherings over a 70-year period in history.
The albums are currently undergoing conservation treatment to clean and repair the paper, bindings and photographs, and in some instances be rebound to make the albums safer to handle, allowing them to be digitised, researched, and displayed within the Royal Collection for future generations.