A painting passed down through a family and cheekily dubbed “Charlie Boy” has turned out to be one of the earliest ever portraits of King Charles II.
Liz Vella inherited the art from her grandparents, and remembers it “watching over” her in their dining room as a child. She said: “The adults used to joke that he was watching us so we had to behave.
My sister was quite creeped out by him but I was fascinated. “Nobody else wanted him so I said I would have him.” As her son Dylan, seven, became interested in history, he urged her to apply to have the portrait restored by BBC1’s hit show The Repair Shop. What is your view?
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