It would be blooming mortifying!

Given that so many girl’s childhood games and daydreams involve being royalty, usually starting out as some kind of Cinderella figure, graduating onto being a princess and eventually queen, it can be sobering to know that in so many ways it is much better to be a plain old commoner.

Although royalty don’t have to grapple with the banal domestic questions of how to get on the property ladder, how to pay for a holiday, and how to get the best deal on car insurance, it turns out there are actually plenty of downsides to having blue blood.

I mean, would you want a pair of your smelly old posthumous knickers to be auctioned to the highest bidder?

Well, that is precisely what happened to one monarch this week when a pair of Queen Victoria’s bloomers where auctioned for nearly £10,000.

I can only imagine that the late monarch is turning in her grave desperately wishing she’d taken her silk undergarments with her.

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