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Also recognized because the Oak Room, the sitting room is situated within the Queen's non-public apartments and was utilized by Her Majesty for intimate audiences and photoshoots. Like many pieces in the Oak Room, it has been in situ for no less than 10 years. In lockdown, the Queen chose the Oak Room for her digital engagements and was typically photographed sitting on a straight-backed wooden dining chair as she carried out a video call. While a lot of the room is traditionally decorated, and seems to have barely modified because it was photographed in 1976, there is one very modern addition to the house. While much of the room seems to have been carpeted with a trendy sage inexperienced carpet, the world in front of the fire has been stored notably cosy with a mushy white rug. Placed on the mantlepiece in front of the mirror is a pair of candelabra in the form of a classically draped female figure. The moody picture exhibits the monarch on horseback in front of Osborne House, the former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight. The only Royal personage to take further curiosity in the craft was the late Queen Mary, consort to King George V, who bequeathed her Georgian sand paintings to the Victoria and Albert Museum, and her assortment of Isle of Wight sand pictures to Carisbrooke Castle Museum on the Isle of Wight. Prince George and Princess Charlotte each smile cheekily in the picture, whereas Peter Phillips' daughter Savannah holds a baby Lena Tindall in her arms. The photograph was taken by the Duchess of Cambridge at Balmoral Castle in 2018 and shows Prince Philip with his arm around Peter Phillips' daughter Isla, whereas the Queen is holding Prince Louis, who was then only a child.