Talk:Yellow Drawing Room

A fact from Yellow Drawing Room appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 April 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that there are dragons in Buckingham Palace?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Philroc (talk) 14:49, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that 4 year old Prince Charles took photographs from a 9ft tall ladder? Source: "I resorted to firing off a number of action shots with a camera. At the sight of this Prince Charles perked up. "What are you doing?" he asked. I told him, whereupon his immediate response was, "Can I come up there and take one of you?" "Of course," I replied, absently not dreaming that he meant it ... "Just look a little mon,. to the left and keep like that." I reeled off more shots. Finally I told him the ordeal was over and thanked him for posing. His instant reply was: "Well, can I come up now and take a picture of you?" I looked anxiously at Nurse Lightbody-Nurse Lightbody looked uneasily at me. "Well, as you've promised ..." Together we hoisted the Heir Apparent up the ladder. The 9 foot structure now seemed horribly high, and I had visions of a body hurtling to the ground, the royal neck broken and myself under guard, being frogmarched to the Tower. The Prince had no such misgivings. Impatiently, he waited while I hung the strap around his neck and explained the camera's workings, then, waving an imperious hand in my direction, he ordered: "Now you go down there and be Prince Charles." Somewhat startled by this suggested reversal of our roles, I hurriedly complied, smiling bravely up at him from the gallery. The camera clicked and the deed was done" ("The Coronation Painting", 29 October 1977, The Illustrated London News)
- ALT1:... that a hologram was made out of 10,000 pictures of Queen Elizabeth II? Source: "To create the image, Levine took more than 10,000 images of the monarch during two sittings in the Yellow Drawing Room of Buckingham Palace before selecting the ones for the final hologram." (Hologram image of Queen unveiled, 22 June 2004, BBC News)
- ALT2:... that it took a month to remove Queen Elizabeth II's Chinese wallpaper? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" ("At Buckingham Palace a team of experts have just spent a month painstakingly removing the exquisite Chinese wallpaper from the Yellow Drawing Room so that it can be properly conserved..." Buckingham Palace restorers take a month to remove Chinese wallpaper, Valentine Low, 8 February 2020, The Times)
- ALT3:... that Queen Elizabeth II was turned into a hologram in 2004? Source: "To create the image, Levine took more than 10,000 images of the monarch during two sittings in the Yellow Drawing Room of Buckingham Palace before selecting the ones for the final hologram." (Hologram image of Queen unveiled, 22 June 2004, BBC News)
- ALT4:... that there are dragons in Buckingham Palace? Source: "The fantastically elaborate marble mantelpiece which came from the Saloon, is of white marble bordered by ormolu. Its frieze, decorated with two dragon headed serpents centering upon a sunflower is supported by steel columns up which two winged ormolu dragons climb" (Clifford Smith, Harold (1931). Buckingham Palace: Its Furniture, Decoration & History London: Country Life, pg 223.)

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Comment: Could I have this as an April Fool's Day DYK?

Created by No Swan So Fine (talk). Self-nominated at 19:40, 7 March 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Sorry, but I don't see what makes this April 1 material. It's quirky, perhaps, but where's the fooling? EEng 19:51, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Hmmmm, you might be right. I'll have to get my jester's cap on and do some more ALTs. No Swan So Fine (talk) 19:53, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - I've added some more. No Swan So Fine (talk) 15:49, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    - If this is to run on AFD then ALT4 is probably the best option here. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 11:41, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      - Date and length fine. AGF on book source. QPQ done, no close paraphrasing. Good to go. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 13:01, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]