What is it?
This doll’s house, or ‘baby house’, was made by the children of George III.
It dates from the last decade of the 18th century when the royal family began to take their summer holidays in Weymouth. The princesses gave the doll's house to the children of the Captain of the King's Flagship at Weymouth.
What’s its story?
The interior of the ‘baby house’ – with its distinctive wallpaper and embroidered bed-pulls – looks much like the palace interior known by the Georgian princesses.
Its interior, we know from accounts, is very similar to the interior of Kew Palace at the turn of the 19th century – green verditer wallpaper, velvet-bell pulls, grained doors, dark brown skirting boards, cream coloured paint – so the baby house is probably of the same date.
