What happened next turned a simple thrift store visit into a viral moment — and ultimately reunited a celebrated artist with irreplaceable family keepsakes.
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Ryan Brennan
April 8,
Sacbee.com,
8 Apr. 2026
After Diana’s death in 1999, her former butler, Paul Burrell, reportedly took her sons William and Harry to their Kensington Palace apartment to choose keepsakes from her belongings.
Her tree glowed with red and green nutcracker figurines tucked throughout the branches.
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Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
12 Apr. 2026
Most of them were confiscated by the Nazis in 1938, but one group of items escaped—a collection of two hundred and sixty-four small Japanese figurines, known as netsuke.
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