Royal Sketches

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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They were intimate pictures the Queen never wanted the public to see.


When family portraits sketched by her were leaked to a journalist, she sought an injunction in one of the first cases of its kind, the furious monarch applied to the courts to stop publication of the drawings in the 1840s.


More than 150 years later, the public will be offered the rare chance to see them when copies of six of the pictures go to auction.