Platinum jubilee: is this woman the royal family’s biggest fan? She has more than 12,000 royalty-themed objects crammed into her home

Margaret Tyler is one of the UK’s biggest collectors of royal memorabilia and has more than 12,000 royalty-themed objects in her home in London

Teacups, posters, pictures, books, statues, slippers and ashtrays bear some sign of the royal family – plus she’s met the queen four times and baked her a cake

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Royal super-fan Margaret Tyler poses with some of her memorabilia in her home in London. Photo: AFP

Published: 4:15pm, 3 Jun 2022

It takes agility to get past the thousands of commemorative pictures and teacups piled up in the London home of Margaret Tyler, one of the UK’s biggest collectors of royal memorabilia.

Ahead of Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee marking 70 years on the throne, celebrations for which began on June 2, the 78-year-old pensioner, clad in a Union flag jacket, showed off her collection, which fills the ground floor of her house in Wembley, a northwestern suburb of the British capital city.

“I think it’s wonderful that she’s done 70 years on the throne. The one thing that does upset me is the fact that Prince Philip isn’t here,” says Tyler, casting her eye over the shelves dedicated to the queen’s husband, who died in 2021 aged 99.

The house’s exterior sets the tone: a front door guarded by two queen-inspired garden gnomes, a replica of a bearskin-hat-wearing royal guard and a pennant in the red white and blue of the Union flag.

Tyler stands among her collection of Royal memorabilia in her living room. Photo: AFP

Inside, Tyler has collected more than 12,000 royalty-themed objects over the past 40 years, from teacups bearing the image of all the members of the royal family, to posters, framed pictures, books, statues, even slippers and ashtrays.