Princess Margaret sale nets £11.6m

Given today’s obsession with celebrity, especially Royal celebrity, it was always on the cards that Christie’s sale last week of Princess Margaret’s jewellery, silver and other personal belongings was going to make much more than the £2m-3m predicted.

The feeding frenzy of media coverage only served to reinforce that souvenir-hunting mentality to the…

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