Duke auctions off family silver
Published January 28th, 2006
The Queen’s cousin, the Duke of Gloucester, will this week sell more than 800 royal family treasures for up to £2 million – to pay a tax bill.
The auction of the private collection at Christie’s in London on Thursday and Friday will raise money to pay his father’s death duties.
Among the items up for auction is a Birmingham-made silver inkstand, which was presented to the Duke’s late father on the day of his wedding to Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott on November 6, 1935, by the Irish Football Association.
