The question Fiona Bruce is asked most about Antiques Roadshow is what happened next to the heirlooms featured on the show. Do the owners of precious treasures sell them or keep them? Is more information about them uncovered?. The answer is all three, as we discover in tonight’s Christmas special, which trawls the archives to bring us stories from as long ago as 35 years to find out what happened next – it’s an episode packed with poignant and surprising stories.
Fiona presents the episode from Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire, a 17th-century pile bequeathed to the National Trust by the fantastically wealthy collector Lord Fairhaven. It’s packed with valuable trinkets and even boasts a special ‘royal’ window.
‘The names of all the members of the Royal Family that stayed are carved on the windowpane with a diamond stylus,’ explains Fiona. ‘Princess Margaret, Elizabeth II, she stayed a few times, and then our current king, Charles. What an incredible guest list!’.
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It’s just one of many uplifting stories featured in this year’s Christmas episode. We set out the most surprising stories below. . What’s the item? In 1990 a woman named Janet Hewlett-Davies – who incidentally had been deputy press secretary to Prime Minister Harold Wilson (and allegedly had an affair with him), but that’s another story – brought a gorgeous neoclassical tiara set with citrines to the Roadshow in Brighton.
