Fantasy land where the trains ran on time

One of the greatest public works that Sir Edwin Lutyens undertook was the erection of a doll’s house for Queen Mary in 1923. A miniature palace inside Windsor Castle, Mary’s doll’s house was more opulently decorated than the humble abodes of her loyal, grown-up subjects.

Every furnishing was reproduced by Britain’s finest craftsmen to a 12th of its actual size, includin…

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