Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret's Christmas pantomimes

The fund supplied wool to knit comforters for soldiers fighting in World War II.

[4] The pictures were painted by Claude Whatham, an evacuee and student at the Wycombe Technical Institute and School of Art.

Whatham used the Throne Room as his studio, working alongside Gerald Kelly who was painting his portraits of the coronation of George VI and Elizabeth.

[5] The pantomimes were written and produced by Hubert Tannar, the headmaster of the Royal Windsor School.

[8] The technical details of the productions were overseen by staff from the Ministry of Works and Planning who attended the dress rehearsals.

[6] In 1991 Elizabeth asked Woods to document his memories of the pantomimes and he subsequently sent her and Margaret an 18-page letter of his recollections.

[9] An archive of photographs and programmes of the pantomimes and telegrams from Elizabeth and Margaret in two scrapbooks was put up for auction in December 2013.

[3] The performance featured "topical and uncomplimentary digs" against the Japanese, who were one of the Axis powers opposing Britain and her allies in the war.

[12] The production on the third night on 18 December was attended by the 22-year-old Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, who had been invited by his first cousin, David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven.

Philip sat alongside the King and Queen and another first cousin, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent.