The "creative recycling artist" used plant pots, carpet and old leaflets to make the models, and tin cans for the Queen's Coronation crown.

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"The early pictures cling onto the idea of royalty in a conventional way -- the Queen with a crown and sceptre, in coronation robes, " says the exhibition's curator, Paul Moorhouse.

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The Dutch royal family has a crown, but there is no coronation and the monarch does not wear it.

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The crown was the same one used at the coronation of Mary Queen of Scots.

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Neither seemed quite keen enough on leading their party - they would have accepted coronation, but wouldn't mud-wrestle for the crown.

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Mr. Samson later cemented the role by placing a gold crown on his own head during a celebration of Napoleon's 1804 coronation.

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