There are numerous state rooms open to be viewed at Woburn which were kept mainly for visiting royalty. The rest of the time these rooms were kept shuttered and furnishings covered, which explains the excellent condition you can find them in today. Notable royal visitors to Woburn include Elizabeth I (whose portrait hangs in the Long Gallery) and Charles I. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited Woburn in 1841 and stayed the night in this particular room. The Queen wrote in her diary:
"...in the bedroom and my dressing-room there are some very fine pictures: in the former hangs one of Lord Russell's trial, by Hayter, one by Wilkie, a Landseer, a beautiful St John by Hayter with his portrait of Lord John and a very fine Eastlake."
Three of these paintings, with the exception of the Wilkie and Eastlake, remain in the collection.
Also to be found in the bedroom are etchings drawn by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, which were a gift to Anna Maria, the Seventh Duchess, who was one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting. A display case contains a letter written by the nine year old Princess Victoria to Elizabeth Sackville-West, later wife of the ninth Duke, and two brooches presented to her by Victoria and Albert when she was one of their bridesmaids at their wedding in 1840.