"We had been informed on a previous visit with the Royal Tour office staff that the Queen would be so well briefed before she arrived that it would be unnecessary to go into any history of the organisation. Judging from the questions, I soon felt this was not the case, so I did inject whenever possible without breaking the thread of the story. The Queen was keenly interested when I told her how we constructed the mannequins...[and] She showed surprise several times about the source of our acquisitions, «where did they come from?» and «where were they made?» «How unusual that these things had been saved and in such good condition!»