As reported by the
BBC, the Forbes family have sold a pair of Queen Victoria's bloomers in an auction at Edinburgh:
A large pair of silk bloomers that belonged to Queen Victoria have sold for more than three times their original estimate.
The undergarment, auctioned alongside hundreds of other royal artefacts, sold for £9,735.
Two pairs of silk stockings worn by Britain's longest serving monarch
also went under the hammer in Edinburgh - one pair selling for more than
£5,000.
They appear to be rather smaller than the
"supersize" undergarments (waistline 74-105 inches) currently marked in the United States.
Unbelievable.
ReplyDeleteSo that's why she was the Virgin Queen
ReplyDelete$20,000 for a pair of antique knickers. What was that PT Barnum said about suckers?
ReplyDeleteum... gbradley... these are Victoria's knickers, not Elizabeth's. Victoria had nine children.
ReplyDeleteI still think they'd make a lot more money if they were to auction some of Pippa's underwear.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, wrong Monarch.
ReplyDeleteThere goes a feeble attempt at Humor
:-)
Good lord.
ReplyDeleteWill someone be seated before a glowing screen 200 or 300 years from now, viewing a photo of my underwear?
Wonder what a pair of erin undies will go for in the future.
eek!