It took specialists a decade to restore the 18th century canopy to the standard visitors can see today.
Housekeeper Anne-Sophie cleans the ornate George III canopy bed in the Ambassador's Room at Scone Palace dating from the 18th CenturyA canopy bed owned by a British diplomat who worked closely with Marie Antoinette has been restored after a 10-year effort., is embroidered with the Royal coat of arms. Its owner was David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield and British Ambassador to Austria from 1763 to 10pm 772.when Marie Antoinette was an archduchess.
"He was a very influential diplomat and would have moved around his various residences with a number of items, including the bed hangings," said Stephen."He spent time in Dresden, in Vienna, where he met Marie Antoinette for the first time, and then in Paris, where he would have had great influence. "The room in which they’re exhibited is now known as the Ambassador’s Room, but it originally would have been a music room inside the house."
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