One of the most surprising rooms in Buckingham Palace,one not open to the public, is known as the Centre Room. It's decorated in George's favourite Oriental style. Most of the treasures in this room came from the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, George's seaside retreat where he entertained his mistresses. With the help of his favourite architect John Nash, George transformed the Pavilion into an exotic fantasy. Britain had never seen anything like it. Eventually, the finest of the pieces from Brighton ended up here in Buckingham Palace, an eccentric reminder of George's lifelong passion. George IV's nursery room was decorated with Chinese latticework. So it would have been one of the first things he saw when he was a baby, and from then on, he was hooked. As an adult, he avidly bought up exotic objects from the east at a time when no-one else was really interested. But people came and saw the King's collection of chinoiserie, as it's called, and were suitably impressed and wanted to copy him. And so, George single-handedly sparked a new wave of Oriental fashion.