King Charles auctions Christmas stockings made from royal curtains

All proceeds from the auction of Christmas stockings made from old curtains will go to King Charles's King's Foundation.

Each sock takes around six hours to complete, with the toecap embroidered with the King's Foundation crest in black thread - Photo: PA

According to Arnet, King Charles is getting into the Christmas spirit with a charity auction of 24 stockings made from old curtains at Sandringham, one of his country estates.

The online auction opens on December 2 and runs until December 12, with all proceeds going to the King's Foundation.

The auction has so far raised more than £10,000. Bidding on each of the 24 stockings will close at midnight on December 12 (local time). The 25th stocking made from the curtains has been reserved for King Charles, as a gift from his own funds.

King Charles pursued a 'repair rather than throw away' lifestyle

The British royal family spends Christmas at Sandringham House in Norfolk. Curtains from the house were repurposed into 25 festive stockings by artisans at Dumfries House Sewing Bee.

A spokesman for the King's Foundation said the reuse of this discarded fabric was "the idea of ​​King Charles himself", and that the initiative began a tradition of finding new ways to recycle luxury materials.

Curtains that once hung at the royal family's resort have been turned into Christmas stockings to be auctioned off for charity - Photo: PA

In 2023, the leftover fabric was turned into high-end kimonos; last year, it was used to reupholster eight chairs.

The King's Foundation, formerly known as the Prince's Foundation when it was founded in 1990, is a charitable organization focused on areas of particular interest to the King, such as recycling and sustainability, traditional arts and crafts, and education .

All proceeds from the auction of the socks will support specialist courses for around 15,000 students each year, much of which is run through the King's Foundation School of Traditional Arts in London, which offers short courses, lectures and postgraduate programmes.

King Charles III sends first Christmas message - Photo: Independent

King Charles has long adhered to the "repair rather than throw away" philosophy in fashion , always prioritizing the repair of old clothes when possible.

"I'm the kind of person who ca n't stand waste. I always want to find ways to reuse things, which is why I talk about the need for a circular economy instead of a linear one where people just make and throw away. That inevitably leads to overexploitation of natural resources," he told British Vogue in 2020.

For his 2023 coronation, King Charles also chose to reuse classic ceremonial attire from previous coronations.

The outfit included a magnificent imperial robe dating from the 1820s, coronation gloves that had belonged to his grandfather, King George VI, since 1937; and underneath the robe, he wore a sleeveless linen tunic called a colobium sindonis, borrowed from his great-grandfather.

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