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The admirers of the Queen isabel II They will be able to fulfill their dream of keeping a memory of her thanks to the next auction that Kerry Taylor Auctions will hold in mid-June. It is an auction that includes a selection of six cotton dresses that Isabel and her sister Margaret wore during her childhood and that her nanny, Clara Knight, kept with permission from the royal family.
Today the garments are in the hands of antiques collector Daniel Haddon, who sells them to the highest bidder. “The dresses make Isabel look more human, because you can imagine her as a child running, playing, getting dirty,” Haddon told the Daily Mail newspaper. Among the pieces up for auction is a design with a Liberty print that is sold with a photo of little Elizabeth wearing that same garment, and another with a geometric print in red and white.
The six dresses, which were worn by the little princesses between 1920 and 1930, are expected to raise a total of fifteen thousand dollars. For example, a blue and pink cotton design with polka dots could sell for six thousand dollars, while another yellow one made of silk from Smith & Co from 1930 has an estimated value of two thousand dollars. “When you see the clothes and look at the alterations, you can sense that they were sewn and used as much as possible. And that undoubtedly makes the Queen closer,” Haddon concluded, days before the big auction.
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