Buckingham Palace curtains in your home for Christmas?

If you ever wanted to enactment your feet up astatine Buckingham Palace, the accidental mightiness travel successful an unexpected way.

Curtains that were erstwhile hung connected palace walls, and successful expansive rooms astatine Windsor Castle, person been recycled into coverings for ft stools.

Eight of these stools, with their eco-friendly royal connections, are going to beryllium auctioned online for the King's Foundation charity.

Disused palace curtains person antecedently been utilized to marque kimonos, which were auctioned past year.

The ft stools could beryllium the eventual Christmas enactment talking point, with furnishings successful your surviving country much authentically royal than the acceptable of the TV amusement the Crown.

The recycled curtain worldly - "delft bluish floral, vintage roseate and teal, and affluent damask burnt orangish drapery" - was of a benignant utilized betwixt the 1950s and 1990s during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.

In a antithetic benignant of uncovering a caller location for Christmas, Battersea Dogs and Cats Home has besides been progressive successful the foundation auction of royal ft stools.

A fig of their dogs seeking caller homes were portion of the photoshoot for the auction tons - possibly successful different benignant of "re-tail".

Money raised astatine the online auction volition spell to the King's Foundation, which helps to bid radical successful accepted trade skills.

The instauration is besides hoping to assistance find homes for immoderate of the Battersea dogs.

The hand-crafted woody ft stools were made astatine the Snowdon School of Furniture, based astatine King Charles's Highgrove Estate successful Gloucestershire.

The coverings were made by members of the Dumfries House Sewing Bee successful Scotland, which invites anyone to articulation to make their skills successful textiles.

The recycling taxable is successful tune with the King's long-held involvement successful sustainability and protecting the environment.

There person been erstwhile royal items sold astatine auction. Last year, much than £32,000 was raised for foundation by auctioning disconnected chairs utilized astatine the Coronation.