THIS week's best pictures from around the UK and world include Princes William and Harry unveiling a statue of their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, at the sunken garden in Kensington Palace.
English Heritage Senior Curator Kevin Booth and Conservator Alice Tate-Harte hang portraits of the Hickmans, the radical protestant family who bought Gainsborough Old Hall in 1596, at Gainsborough Old Hall in Lincolnshire, as English Heritage prepare for the opening of the property to members of the public.
And paleontological conservator Nigel Larkin dusts the teeth of Titus during a preview of the Tyrannosaurus Rex exhibition: Titus: T. Rex is King, at Wollaton Hall Natural History Museum, Nottingham.
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