An intimate scrapbook kept by Queen Victoria's governess including locks of the monarch's hair and her wedding dress fabric is to be auctioned for £26,000. One of the portraits in the intimate scrapbook shows Queen Victoria and her aide John Brown. Small pieces of paper stuck inside the book show the young Victoria's first attempts to write while artistic watercolours depict her coronation and romantic scenes. He said: 'We know that Queen Victoria sent a lot of hair samples, and that this was very typical of the time. It was sold in 2001 when it sparked a frenzied bidding war between two would-be buyers who wanted to DNA test Victoria's hair to see if they were related to the Queen.

Source: Daily Mail November 27, 2017 09:33 UTC