FLOTUS pool 2: Royal library

First Lady Melania Trump and Queen Camilla arrived at the Royal Library at Windsor at 10:35am

FLOTUS wearing a tan leather jacket and skirt.

The Queen wearing a white dress with vertical stripes

The room’s walls are lined bookshelves up to the ceiling deep red patterned carpets. By the fireplace looking into the library is a bust of William Shakespeare

They first stopped at a table of tiny books.

Table 1: display of miniature books made especially for the Queen Mary doll house

1922 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: How Watson Learned the Trick

AA Milane’s: Winnie the Pooh 1922

The Gruffalo: Julia Donaldson 2023

A Recipe Fit for a Queen: Tom Parker Bowles 2023

FLOTUS marveled at the small size of the volumes and intricate details

“That’s incredible,” she said. “That’s beautiful .”

She noted the writing was very small, requiring “Very steady hands” to create them.

The Queen lifted one up to show it to FLOTUS.

“It’s beautiful,” she said.

“They’re brilliant aren’t they,” the queen replied.

They then stopped at Table 2: A very large book - John J. Audubon’s Birds of America 1827-1838 — original

FLOTUS noted that the book was “Very delicate.”

Also on the table:

Washington Irving, the sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon 1823 - collection including Rip Van Winkle and the Legends of Sleepy Hollow

They are Queen Victoria’s copies, as Washington Irving was one of her favorite authors

The pair then moved to a table of six schoolchildren who were writing and drawing pictures of animals.

“You need to have very small writing to fit on a very small book,” she commented to one child who showed FLOTUS the illustrations.

“This is beautiful is that a fox?” she asked

They were.

Another child showed the Queen drawings of a Polar bear and a penguin.

They were accompanied by Elizabeth Ashby curator of books and manuscripts

Dr Stella Panayatova the Royal librarian and Mr Tim Knox - Director of the Royal Collection

This Children are from the Eton Porny Church of England primary. School children age is 8 to 9 accompanied by two teachers Sophie Jones and Helen Dewar.

They later moved further into the library to examine more of the artifacts.

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