Queen Mary's Dollhouse
By Johnston
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
One of the most famous dollhouses in the world is Queen Mary’s Doll House. It was designed for Queen Mary and exhibited for the first time at the British Empire Exhibition of 1924/25, and currently resides at Windsor Castle where it is a tourist attraction, seen and enjoyed by all but even more so with dollhouse collectors, dollhouse makers and lovers of dollhouses and miniatures.
Queen Mary’s Dollhouse was so elaborate and exacting in its detail that it’s hard to believe that it’s a dollhouse. The curtains, furnishings and carpets are all replicas of the real thing including the working lights and switches. Also, well known writers of the day such as Rudyard Kipling wrote and bound miniature books to scale for a miniature library which included miniature dollhouse furniture and paintings to scale. Even the bottles in the wine cellar were filled with the real wines and spirits for authenticity in the Queen Mary’s Dollhouse.