Antiques Roadshow: Fiona Bruce STARTLED after handling QUEEN'S toilet seat amid revelation
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW fans saw a strange scenario during tonight’s BBC episode as Fiona Bruce and the team were at Queen Victoria's favourite seaside residence, Osborne on the Isle of Wight.
As the Antiques Roadshow experts set up their tables overlooking the grand gardens with views of the Solent, one visitor brought along an unusual item - a royal toilet seat.
Fiona grabbed the seat and asked: “So, you’ve brought along a toilet seat. Is it clean?”
The owner then replied: “It is. It’s Queen Victoria’s toilet seat.”
Fiona gasped: “The Royal posterior graced this seat?”
The owner then revealed: “She used it at one of her cottages on the estate.”
So, you’ve brought along a toilet seat. Is it clean?
Valuation expert Mark Allum laughed: “This is her alternative throne then is it? I would be prepared to spend £500 on that toilet seat!”
Fiona then asked if the toilet seat is still used, concerned when the owner replied: “Yes we do, we still use it!”
Fans of the show instantly took to social media following the episode.
One viewer tweeted: “We've had her nightie and now her toilet seat! #AntiquesRoadshow expert @Marc_Allum says he'd pay £500 for this alternative Royal throne! @BBCOne @EHOsborneHouse.”
“*Fiona strokes the toilet seat* ‘Do you use it still?’ ‘Yes!’ #antiquesroadshow,” posted another.
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A third added: “That toilet seat looks legit, she unscrewed a toilet seat that’s currently in use. What madness is this? #AntiquesRoadshow.”
“#AntiquesRoadshow ‘Mary, have you finished?’ ‘Why?’ ‘I’m going to take our toilet seat today’ ‘I’d give it 5 minutes before you unscrew it if I was you’,” laughed another.
A fifth gasped: “As if someone brought a toilet seat used by royal Victoria #antiquesroadshow.”
“Not just any old toilet seat, it's a royal toilet seat! #antiquesroadshow,” noted another.
One viewer warned: “Put that toilet seat down, Fiona. They still use it.... #AntiquesRoadshow.”
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“A toilet seat?! £500 #AntiquesRoadshow,” gasped another.
Other surprises included a globe-trotting trunk, a chair with a moving story behind it and a beautiful Japanese jar found in a water tank.
Hilary Kay learns, thanks to a little locket, that not everyone has heard of The Beatles, while Geoffrey Munn unlocks the secret code on a Russian brooch.
Antiques Roadshow continues next Sunday on BBC One at 8pm.