Queen’s silk knickers get £11K on ebay
A pair of silk knickers belonging to Queen Elizabeth II of Britain has fetched a whopping £11,390 at an auction on eBay, according to a media report. The decades-old knickers, which were put up for sale on the online auction site earlier in May, has attracted 18 separate bids and eventually sold for £11,390, the Daily Telegraph reported.
The selling price is said to be about £2,000 more than a pair of Queen Victoria’s bloomers which were sold in 2011. The vintage garments, embroidered with the letter E that may stand for “Elizabeth” and a picture of a crown, was sold by the estate of Baron Joseph “Sepy” de Bicske Dobronyi, described as an aristocrat, art collector, traveller and playboy, according to the report.
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‘Babies left to cry stay SAD hours after’
London: Parents please take note: Babies who are left to cry themselves to fall asleep feel “stressed” and stay unhappy even after they seem to settle, resea-rchers say. Researchers at the University of North Texas found that youngsters who are deliberately left to cry themselves to sleep eventually appeared to settle themselves without being comforted.
But the levels of the stress hormone, cortisol, remain high in them even after they have apparently learnt to settle themselves. In other words, the child is still unhappy but just keeping quiet about it, the researchers said. — PTI
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