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The knee-length bloomers were one of a number of items to be sold
at auction this week. The overseas buyer of Britain’s longest
reigning monarch’s bloomers wishes to remain anonymous, according
to the auctioneer.
A pair of silk stockings, also belonging to Victoria, sold for
£1,100.
Michael Hogben, the auctioneer, said: “The items are very
large.
“She wore them towards the end of her life when she had eaten a lot
more than most people could afford to. When Queen Victoria died she
gifted a lot of her under-linen to her loyal servants.
These bloomers have been in a Kent family for more than 80
years.”
“These are some of the most interesting items I have auctioned in
my 40-year career.”
Victoria’s underwear on sale this week was thought to be used in
the later part of her life in the 1890s.
In 2011, another pair of the Monarch’s silken bloomers were sold
for £10,000 at auciton.
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