Old curtains from a royal residence have been recycled into festive stockings for a charity auction.

Members of a sewing bee took on the task of turning the curtains from Sandringham House in Norfolk into 25 stockings ahead of Christmas.

The sewing bee is based in another stately home with a royal connection – Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.

Its members meet there every week and, in recent months, their time has been spent repurposing the luxurious curtain material for the charity endeavour.

Twenty-four of the individually numbered stockings are being auctioned to raise money for The King’s Foundation, with the final one to be given to the King as a Christmas present.

Each one took more than six hours to make, with bee members using techniques such as hand embroidery, piping and

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