Paris robbery indicates £ 3m insurance payment for royal collection

Last year, a dramatic day loot in a Museum in Paris resulted in insurance of more than £ 3m for the Royal Collection Trust, after the theft of two royal items during a loan for an exhibition.

The figure has surfaced in the annual accounts of the Royal Collection Trust, showing the scale of damage from the raid on the Cognac-J Museum in Paris last November.

The robbers broke the demonstration cases and took an item from the 18th -century luxury short items exhibition.

The Hall consisted of two historical, rich affection snuff boxes on the loan from the UK royal collection.

At the time of robbery last year, media reports claimed that there was a loss of about one million euros – but a figure of £ 3,020,000 shown as an insurance receipt in the Royal Collection Trust’s annual report, underlining it “Mousse Conyac -Ajay regarding the stolen snuff box during the loan”.

The trust, a charity that takes care of pictures, sculptures, furniture and jewelery in the royal collection, in the report published on Tuesday says that the money will be placed in a specified fund “used for the increase of the money”.

Two stolen objects from the Royal collection are believed to be considered a snuff box with a cameo in the birth of Venus, built in Germany in the 18th century, and a Fabric Royal Snowf Box built in Germany in the 18th century, and with around 3,000 diamonds.

The fabric Royale box belonged to the Russian royal family before being seized by Soviet authorities in 1917. It was later purchased by Queen Mary, wife of George V, in 1932.

The French newspaper Le Monde reported that the robbery was abolished by four masked reders, who pulled on a scooter and then used an ax to break in cases of demonstrations, in front of visitors in the museum.

Also, the stolen items on the loan from the Royal Collection were also displayed from the Palace of Louvre Museum and Versay in France.

The annual report of the trust also showed a record number of visitors at Buckingham Palace last year.

There were 683,000 visitors, in which the palace was opened for more visitors and for increasing numbers. The East Wing, which ignores the mall, is renovated and opened for tourists for the first time.

But the biggest attraction remains Windsor Castle, with about 1.4 million visitors during 2024–25.

Overall, there were 2.9 meters visitors in Royal palaces and exhibitions, contributing to an income of about £ 90m with ticket sales, which took advantage of about £ 14m.

This year is a series of £ 1 ticket and other benefits for people on universal credit in methods of improving access to access, 19,500 tickets are being sold in four months Windsor Castle and Holirudhouse Palace in Edinburgh.