The Royal Family recently treated royal fanatics to a rare video of its historic nineteenth-century wallpaper being taken away for conservation. The Wallpaper was taken from the Yellow Drawing Room in the East Wing of Buckingham Palace.

In a special video uploaded to the Royal Family Instagram account, the wallpaper is carefully taken away for conservation.

The process is all part of the re-servicing programme for the palace which will cost an estimated £406million.

The programme has previously come under fire for costing the tax payer too much after previous years have seen an an increase in the sovereign grant due to an increase in expenditure on property maintenance.

The grant included the £14.1million expenditure on the Re-servicing of Buckingham Palace, which proved rather controversial with members of the public.

The footage of the latest development of the reserving of Buckingham Palace sees the wallpaper carefully being taken down for conservation as the work begins in the East Wing.

The caption of the video said: “Not only will this work restore the rare, fragile wallpaper, but it will simultaneously protect it from incurring damage from nearby construction work as part of the Re-servicing programme.

“Once the works are complete, the restored wallpaper will return to its home in the Yellow Drawing Room.”

The account defended the need for a reserving programme, claiming this will “mitigate the risk of a fire” among other health and safety issues.

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The post informed readers: “The Re-servicing programme is vital in order to mitigate the risk of fire and flood and will ensure that old wiring is brought in line with current health and safety standards.

According to the palace, the reserving programme will replace outdated pipes and wires as well as replacing the lift.

“The refurbishment will also improve visitor access and make the Palace more energy efficient.”

The wallpaper was designed by Edward Blore in the 1840s.

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The East Wing of Buckingham Palace was said to be built for Queen Victoria to provide more entertaining and living space as her family began to grow.

The post added: “Blore’s design included the famous central balcony on the front façade of the Palace, which was incorporated at Prince Albert’s suggestion.

“Since then it has been used on many national occasions, including annually at Trooping the Colour.”

The project came under fire after the Sovereign Grant increased by a large amount in order to tackle the restoration.

Last year the Royal Household received an extra £19.6million of taxpayers money “due to an increase in expenditure on property maintenance”, according to Buckingham Palace.

There was public outcry following news Meghan Markle and Prince Harry spent £2.4million on revamping Frogmore Cottage, despite having considerable income of their own.

The Royal Trustees agreed that from 2017 to 2018, the Sovereign Grant would be calculated based on 25 percent of the income account net surplus of the Crown Estate for the financial year two years previous.

The additional 10 percent is to be used to fund the Re-servicing of Buckingham Palace over a period of ten years.

The additional Sovereign Grant for Re-servicing for 2018 to 2019 is £32.9million and the total Sovereign Grant is, therefore, £82.2million.

According to Buckingham Palace, the official expenditure met by the total Sovereign Grant in 2018-19 amounted to £67million (2017 to 2018: £47.4 million) an increase of £19.6million (41 percent) compared to the previous year.

This is mainly due to an increase in expenditure on property maintenance.

This includes the staggering £14.1 million expenditure on the Re-servicing of Buckingham Palace.

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