BBCNEWS BBC News June 3, 2021 12:30:00
Along with the other items in the collection, including this life—size test garment of the goronation gown of queen elizabeth, the queen mother, from 1937, it's a challenge to keep these dresses in their full royal glory. the ones that are in store, we monitor the environment that they're in, we look at things like relative humidity, the temperature, pests are also a very big problem. everything is packed in acid—free boxes and tissue paper and then obviously things that are on display, there's slightly different criteria, so we look at light levels, but we also do a little bit of hands—...