article_snippet.sent: With its stuffed rhino heads and gleaming white tusks, the trophy room at Sandringham was a relic of a bygone era – as well as rather embarrassing for animal welfare crusader Prince William.
article_snippet.sent: For every last piece of hunting memorabilia has been removed from public display and replaced with what one visitor called ‘trinkets and bric-a-brac’.
article_snippet.sent: How the trophy room at Sandringham used to look, complete with stuffed rhino heads .
article_snippet.sent: After explaining that the trophy room at Sandringham opened in 1928 to house George V’s collection of ‘big game trophies’, a new sign outside the Sandringham museum says: ‘Thankfully, due to the work of organisations like the World Wide Fund for Nature, whose President was HRH Prince Philip until 1996, this destructive era is drawing to a close – the camera having replaced the gun in recording the sightings of these magnificent animals.
article_snippet.sent: Under a European Council regulation, the uncarved ivory, stuffed lions and white rhinos all potentially broke the law as the uncarved ivory, stuffed lions and white rhinos were not on show with an official certificate.
article_snippet.sent: Chnging times: Now every last piece of hunting memorabilia has been removed from public display .
article_snippet.sent: And the royals now appear to have taken decisive action by removing the items from display – but whether the royals replacements are particularly interesting is another matter entirely.
article_snippet.sent: the items from display – include an ashtray used by King George V, a Sandringham Cycling Club badge dating from 1895 and an embroidered cover of Radio Times that marked the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.
article_snippet.sent: One visitor who went along to Sandringham on Saturday said: ‘Every last animal head, stuffed animal or skin has gone.
article_snippet.sent: A spokesman for Buckingham Palace said yesterday that the trophies had been put away to make room for an exhibition of paintings by members of the British, Danish, Greek and Russian royal families.
highlights_snippet.sent: All hunting memorabilia removed from public display at Norfolk estate .
  