The extended audience on Wednesday was a rethinking of the original engagement, with the factory’s work and skills being brought to the Queen in the comfort of her own home instead.
The event was captured on camera by one photographer, with images shared with the watching world.
Dressed for spring in a silk floral day dress and wearing her favourite three-string pearl necklace, the Queen was said to be in her element despite moving a little less deftly than she once could.
She used a sturdy wooden walking stick, smiling broadly as she was shown the presentation and picking up some of the tiny enamelled boxes to inspect them.
The intricately decorated cups and saucers were laid out on a white linen-covered table in the White Drawing Room.
Among the items was a selection of the earliest designs, created after the company was founded 1950 just two years before the start of the Queen’s reign.
Queen Mother was a dedicated fan of the crafts
Taking a closer look at the antique pieces, the Queen held a small oval trinket box with a red base, decorated with a black and white painting of Windsor Castle where the monarch currently lives.
She also picked up a larger rectangular trinket box, edged in lilac, featuring three colour portraits of her late mother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, as a young woman.
The Queen Mother was a dedicated fan of the firm’s creations, and first commissioned an enamel box in 1970 of her London home Clarence House.
