Highlights from the Victoria & Albert: Art & Love exhibition at Buckingham Palace

A member of staff adjusts a portrait of Queen Victoria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
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Prince Albert’s taste was influenced by his German ancestry and his experience as a student in Florence and Rome. Franz Xaver Winterhalter painted the royal family in 1846
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A member of staff opens a cabinet with the queen's costume for the Stuart ball in 1851, designed by Eugène Lami
Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA

Victoria was the first monarch to live at Buckingham Palace. Guests were encouraged to commission elaborate fancy dress in support of the declining Spitalfields silk industry
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The exhibition includes the most sumptuous of Victoria’s surviving dresses, designed by Eugène Lami for the 1851 Stuart ball, seen here in detail
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This throne, carved from ivory, was a gift to Victoria from the Maharaja of Travancore in 1851
Photograph: Martin Godwin/Guardian

A staff member checks the throne and its footstool
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The exhibition displays a dazzling selection of jewels presented to the queen by the directors of the East India Company
Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA