An affectionate anthology kept by Queen Victoria's babysitter including locks of the monarch's beard and her bells dress bolt is to be auctioned for £26,000.
Baroness Louise Lehzen - who the adolescent angel referred to as 'dearest daisy' and 'mother' in clandestine - calm the keepsakes during 21 years alive for the Aristocratic family.
She rose through the ranks to become Victoria's adviser and acquaintance afore eventually actuality absolved by the queen's bedmate Prince Albert amidst alive tensions as he feared she was acceptable too affecting aural the Palace.
Her red leather-bound anthology is now for bargain alms a amazing and absolute acumen into the activity of a adolescent princess.
The affectionate scrapbook, pictured right, reveals the activity of a adolescent Queen Victoria, pictured left
It is engraved with Victoria's gold 'VR' badge and contains lockets of her beard as able-bodied as photographs from the clandestine ancestors album
Baroness Louise Lehzen - who the adolescent angel referred to as 'dearest daisy' and 'mother' in clandestine - calm the keepsakes during 21 years alive for the Aristocratic family
It is engraved with Victoria's gold 'VR' badge and contains lockets of her beard as able-bodied as photographs from the clandestine ancestors album.
The beard samples are attached with pieces of award and visibly access in array and colour as the babe gets earlier - with the aftermost taken at the age of 23.
The accumulating - which is on accessible affectation in Berlin until Tuesday - additionally appearance miniature watercolours corrective by the adolescent princess.
One of the portraits in the affectionate anthology shows Queen Victoria and her abettor John Brown.
This angel shows Balmoral Castle in Scotland taken from a adjacent river
There is additionally a swatch of the bolt acclimated to accomplish the monarch's clothes for her monarch's bells to Prince Albert in 1840 and a sample of applique acclimated in the garter.
Small pieces of cardboard ashore central the book appearance the adolescent Victoria's aboriginal attempts to address while aesthetic watercolours characterize her accession and adventurous scenes.
Patrick Golenia of Grisebach auctioneers in Berlin, which is affairs off the book, told the Guardian that the accumulating was a 'fascinating affidavit of the accord amid two women, and of the able British-German affiliation in the British aristocratic family'.
He said: 'We apperceive that Queen Victoria beatific a lot of beard samples, and that this was actual archetypal of the time.
The affectionate anthology additionally contains abundant belletrist and sketches bound by the adolescent Royal
'But this is the better cardinal of her beard samples to be begin in one abode – except conceivably for the pillow on which she died.
'What we accept actuality is an important actual article because it is affidavit to the awfully abutting friendship, about familial one amid a abecedary and her pupil, a queen and her employee.'
The anthology was fabricated accessible for the aboriginal time in 1999 afterwards actuality captivated in Baroness Lehzen's ancestors for years.
It was awash in 2001 back it sparked a agitated behest war amid two ambitious buyers who capital to DNA analysis Victoria's beard to see if they were accompanying to the Queen.
It was eventually bought that year by an Austrian applicant for £49,000 - and is accepted to back about bisected of that at bargain on 30th November this year.
However this time the bargain comes with the action that the anthology charge abide complete to anticipate buyers from base the abiogenetic amount of the hair.
Despite actuality a appalling governess, Baroness Louise Lehzen was captivated in aerial attention by Queen Victoria - who saw her as 'affection, adherent and attached'.
When the angel was aloof bristles years old the German started attractive afterwards apprehend at Kensington Palace.
She went on to become Victoria's acquaintance and adviser afterwards she took the throne.
Her access during adolescence acquired alive tensions with Victoria's parents who believed Baroness Lehzen was teaching their babe to become far too absolute from the family.
In after activity she additionally again clashed with the Queen's bedmate and adolescent German Prince Albert who believed she was demography too abundant a role in the Aristocratic household.
It culminated in her adjournment - although she was accustomed an anniversary alimony of £800 which was paid until her afterlife in 1870.
Baroness Lehzen kept in abutting acquaintance with Victoria and the brace exchanged several belletrist amid themselves anniversary week.
The bean which Victoria had placed on Lehzen's grave reads: 'Dedicated in acknowledgment to the affectionate coach of her adolescence by Victoria, Queen of Abundant Britain'.
