10 owners of the series' most extraordinary items reveal what they did next - and one cashed in BIG time The question Fiona Bruce is asked most about Antiques Roadshow is what happened next to the heirlooms featured on the show.
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.
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.
It's the question all Antiques Roadshow fans want answered... did they sell their priceless heirloom?
It’s packed with valuable trinkets and even boasts a special ‘royal’ window.
