Scott’s poignant flag to go on show
Senior exhibition co-ordinator at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, Stephen Weber, unfurls a Union Flag which was carried by Captain Robert Falcon Scott on his ill-fated exhibition to the South Pole as part of a Royal Collection exhibition to mark the centenary of the race to the Pole.
The flag was presented to Scott by Queen Alexandra, widow of King Edward VII, and found with his body.
Pencil sketches by Edward Wilson, a member of Scott’s ill-fated group of explorers, revealing the devastating moments when the British team realised the Norwegians had beaten them to the South Pole by less than a month, are going on public display for the first time.
The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography, runs from October 21 to April 15.