The spoils of war now hanging on the walls of Bermuda’s House of Assembly have been featured by the BBC, after the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the end of the War of 1812.

Bermuda served as the staging point for the 1814 British naval attack, in which the White House and other edifices in the US capital were burned — and, in some cases, looted for good measure.

Bermuda became home for several trophies when the Royal Navy sailed back to the Island: the portraits of King George III and Princess Charlotte on the western wall of Parliament were pictured in the BBC’s news magazine. Other paintings hang in the Cabinet Office. Two centuries on, the US seems unlikely to press for the Royals’ return, the broadcaster notes.