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BBC News Published image captionBuckingham Palace's Masterpieces exhibition was forced to shut after less than two weeks The two men in charge of the Queen's art collection have left and won't be replaced "for the time being" because of Covid's impact on royal finances. Desmond Shawe-Taylor, the Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures - a post that was created in 1625 - has taken redundancy. Rufus Bird, the Surveyor of The Queen's Works of Art, has also left. The Royal Collection Trust has said it expects to lose £64m in income this year because Buckingham Palace and other sites have been shut to v...