VISIONS OF ROYAL LIFE

IT’S a gift once owned by a queen and now fit for a future king – and it’s here on the Gold Coast, according to a local antique dealer.

Just a week out from the arrival of Prince Charles for the Commonwealth Games, a mirror that is claimed to have once belonged to Queen Victoria has appeared after more than a century out of the public eye.

The mirror, for sale at the Runaway Bay Antiques Centre, is said to have been owned by Queen Victoria and once hung in her Isle of Wight summer home and rural retreat, Osborne House.

Weighing 30kg, the mirror features Victoria’s royal sigil – a seal, sign or symbol – and is valued at several thousand dollars.

Antiques centre owner Rodney Overton said royal antiques were rare and highly prized.

Mr Overton said the mirror was likely to have been removed from Osborne House following Victoria’s death on January 22, 1901.

It arrived on the Gold Coast through a local who obtained it in New Zealand.

Picture: GLENN HAMPSON Antiques dealer Rodney Overton with a mirror which was once supposedly owned by Queen Victoria.