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They will be sold alongside nightdresses, stockings and hats worn by Queen Victoria and her third child, Princess Alice. 

All items, from the Yesterday’s World museum in Sussex, bear the stamp VR – short for Victoria Regina. 

Auctioneer Richard Edmonds said the royal clothing is in “excellent” condition, having been preserved in tissue paper in a temperature controlled storeroom. 

Mr Edmonds, the principal auctioneer at Chippenham Auction Rooms in Wiltshire, said: “This is a particularly eclectic sale with a strong royal theme,” he said.

“Victorian royal clothing comes up for sale occasionally but rarely in this excellent condition.

“Items of Queen Victoria’s clothing were often given to members of the royal household, particularly after her death in 1901.