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He also benefitted from some crucial family support: the Queen's daughter, Laura Lopes, was at the National Gallery for the unveiling and complimented the painting.

King Charles and Queen Camilla have unveiled their new state portraits at the National Gallery on the second anniversary of their Coronation day.

Ten other protesters, who took part in JSO demonstrations on M25 gantries, occupied tunnels under the road leading to the Navigator Oil Terminal in Thurrock in Essex and threw soup on Van Gogh's Sunflowers in the National Gallery in London, had their sentences upheld.

The money announced on Thursday includes a pot worth £120m, which will be available to 17 major institutions such as the British Museum, National Gallery and National Museums Liverpool, which all get their regular annual funding from the DCMS.

A Monet masterpiece from the National Gallery is to be exhibited in four galleries around England.