Things You Didn't Know
The largest and most expensive figure that Royal Doulton makes takes more than 160 hours to hand paint and costs in excess of $20,000.
Royal Doulton was the first china to enter space. China plates were carried on the inaugural flight of the space shuttle Discovery in 1984.
Royal Doulton ceramics are included in a time capsule inside the base of Cleopatra’s Needle on the Thames Embankment in London.