 Wadston was a house that was built for entertaining, it was never intended to be a home. So we know that it was only really used between May and September each year for weekend house parties. And the kinds of people who would have been coming here were Victorian high society because the Rothschilds moved in royal circles, political circles and artistic circles too. So the kinds of people who would have been coming here were very often the set that moved around the Prince of Wales later, Edward VII. Felly Ferdinand was very involved in politics and because this room is in the bachelor's wing it would have been used by the male guests attending the house parties so it could have been politicians, other members of the royal family and certainly the Prince of Wales who would have used this room for relaxing and smoking in the evening because it had a practical function as well as being the setting for the museum. Well what characterises the Renaissance museum collection as Ferdinand termed it was that it was referring back to this tradition of the 16th and 17th century where European rulers in particular and later private gentlemen would form collections that really showed their view of the world. And they could be called a shatskammer which means a treasure chamber or a kuntskammer, an art chamber and they comprised lots of different materials, items made of exotic materials such as amber, mother of pearl, other precious stones, small scale sculpture in ivory and wood and bronze and things made of glass, myolica and often items from the natural world. And Ferdinand was referencing this collecting tradition in the collection that he formed in the 19th century. The photograph shows the Prince of Wales and his wife Princess Alexandra and their children and we know that the Prince of Wales was a very regular visitor to Wadston and that he and Ferdinand were great friends. And Wadston was the setting almost for an alternative court for the Prince of Wales so he could be as easy here, it wasn't formal like the royal palaces in London and creating his own estate on Sandringham he also had a bachelor's wing and it's very interesting to speculate about how they influenced each other in terms of decor. But the photograph of the royal family with its wonderful red velvet frame with the gold lace was in this room, we know that from the photograph of the room and from the inventory taken at Ferdinand's death and it's rather a nice sign of their friendship that alongside all of these museum quality objects there were also the domestic objects that signalled this friendship.