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The probate process is public, the legal equivalent of washing your dirty linen in the front yard.

They divorced several years later, but she kept his last name, partly because her mother hated the idea of wasting wedding gifts of monogrammed linens.

The royal couple were told by Helen Keys and Charlie Mallon about the sustainable methods being used to grow flax to create linen.

Nevertheless, some family possessions survive and are exhibited here: a lovely walnut writing desk used by Otto Frank, table linens with family initials, colorful crockery, a precious photo album.

“You can run a pizza shop on the linen bill of a fine-dining restaurant,” he said.