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Sotheby’s to auction Princess Margaret’s 21st birthday bracelet
necessary to pay for their own children’s education and in order to settle a £3 million inheritance tax bill left when the Princess died in 2002.Among the items sold in the original jewellery auction, which raised over £9.5 million, was the Poltimore tiara which Princess Margaret wore at her wedding to photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960.The tiara became even more iconic when Armstrong-Jones released a photograph of the Princess wearing it in the bath in 1962. Estimated at £200,000, it sold for £926,400.
