Maybe the Guardian is focused on the late Malcolm Forbes' framed assortment of Queen Victoria's stockings and bloomers because Queen Victoria-shaped toilet brush holders are commonplace, the country house water closet equivalent of garden gnomes. It's all news to me.
But I will bet you two shillings and a bob for the driver that those bloomers did not always stay in the frame, if you know what I'm sayin'.
Queen Victoria's bloomers up for auction [guardian]
Lot 418
NOVELTY EARTHENWARE TOILET BRUSH HOLDER moulded in the form of a seated Queen Victoria, Estimate £100-150 [lyonandturnbull.com]
PDF - Sale 338: The Forbes Collection at Old Battersea House [lyonandturnbull.com]