Queen Victoria's coffin lace fails to sell at auction

[Still Waters]

White lace allegedly used to shroud Queen Victoria's coffin has failed to sell at auction.

Hansons Auctioneers in Derbyshire expected the portion of pall to sell for between £1,500 and £2,000.

A 60-year-old woman had kept it in the dark, preserved for years in the attic of a Somerset property.

The unnamed grandmother said: "I was given the lace by my grandmother more than 40 years ago when I was a teenager.

"It went into my treasure box, a collection of family items I've kept since childhood."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-61984052