Late Queen’s colouring book on sale for £6k
Late Queen’s colouring book on sale for £6k
Telegraph reportersTue, October 20, 2026 at 11:25 AM UTC
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The late Queen cut figures from a colouring book and arranged them on a sheet of paper - Waddingtons
A colouring book collage made by Elizabeth II when she was eight is on sale for £6,000.
As a young princess, the late Queen assembled a scene from the Pied Piper for a picture described as a “charming reminder” by auctioneers.
She coloured in outline figures of the piper, children, trees and houses using crayons before cutting them out and glueing them onto a larger sheet of paper.
She signed the picture “Lilibet”. On the back, the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother wrote “Painted by Princess Elizabeth of York, Xmas 1934”.
The picture is being sold in Toronto, Canada, with an estimated price of £6,000 - Waddingtons
She had started to write “Eliz” but scratched that out to use her daughter’s formal title instead.
In the 1950s, an unknown member of the royal household gave the 14in-by-27in collage to James Ryan, a worker for the removals firm Bishop’s Move, which Buckingham Palace employed.
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It has since passed into a private collection and is being sold by Waddingtons in Toronto, Canada.
The back of the framed picture - Waddingtons
Sean Quinn, a specialist at Waddingtons, said: “The picture, done at such a young age, was a gift from a member of the Buckingham Palace household in the 1950s to James Ryan.
“It is a charming reminder that our revered Queen Elizabeth II was once a little girl called Lilibet who liked to colour. Works by Her Majesty are rare and I have high hopes for it.”
Childhood doodles by the late Queen have occasionally appeared at auction in recent years, commanding high prices.
Elizabeth II died in 2022 at 96 - WPA Pool/Getty Images/Jane Barlow
However, she and Princess Margaret, her sister, were said to be more fond of the performing arts, even putting on Royal pantomimes during the Second World War to boost morale.
However, her son King Charles has had a lifelong passion for art and is a talented painter of watercolour landscapes.
The late Queen died aged 96 in 2022, The sale takes place on Oct 22.
Source: “AOL Entertainment”
