'Cupboards are overflowing': Royal superfan reveals 'priceless' collection
Queensland woman Kerry Whitley prides herself in being one of the biggest royal fans around - and she has the collection to prove it.
The Toowoomba woman has a British soldier standing guard at her door, but it's what's behind it that is fit for royalty.
"All the cupboards are overflowing and everything's piled up on the floor because there's no more room," Whitley said about her collection, which started growing in 1976.
Queensland woman Kerry Whitley prides herself in being one of the biggest royal fans around - and she has the collection to prove it. A Current Affair
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Whitley told A Current Affair it all started with one book she bought on Edward VII and Queen Victoria.
Her collection has now grown to more than 10,000 pieces - from Queen Victoria's reign in the 1800s, right through to our modern day royals.
"I just find pieces at markets, second=hand shops, at antique shops, antique fairs … I bought something fantastic recently at the dump shop," she said.
Whitley's collection has now grown to more than 10,000 pieces - from Queen Victoria's reign in the 1800s, right through to our modern day royals. A Current Affair
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What was once a two-car garage is now teeming with royal history and she said she's got no more room left.
The Toowoomba woman said amongst her items are a big King Henry VIII collection, Mary Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I collection.
But it's her Queen Elizabeth II collection that feels the most important now.
What was once a two-car garage is now teeming with royal history and she said she's got no more room left. A Current Affair
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"I have eight cupboards on Queen Elizabeth II," she said.
"I have some beautiful and authentic pieces from her coronation in 1953."
Whitley has two cupboards alone that are just on the coronation and inside is a front page of the newspaper from the day after the Queen's coronation, plates, thimbles and spoons.
Whitley has two cupboards alone that are just on the coronation. A Current Affair
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Whitley said one of her favourite pieces of memorabilia is a tassle made from silk which was used in the Queen's coronation robes in 1953.
"So it's quite unique," she said.
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