No chintz might change, no carpet, no curtain, be replaced by another; or, if long use at last made it necessary, the stuffs and the patterns must be so identically reproduced that the keenest eye might not detect the difference.

No new picture could be hung upon the walls at Windsor, for those already there had been put in their places by Albert, whose decisions were eternal.

So, indeed, were Victoria's.
To ensure that they should be the aid of the camera was called in.

Every single article in the Queen's possession was photographed from several points of view.

These photographs were submitted to Her Majesty, and when, after careful inspection, she had approved of them, they were placed in a series of albums, richly bound.