Darth Vader's lightsaber fetches record £3.7m - making it the most expensive Star Wars prop ever

Daily Mail - Nov 14, 2026

It's enough to make a Wookiee weep - in an auction room far, far away, Darth Vader's lightsaber has fetched £3.7million.

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Darth Vader's lightsaber fetches record £3.7m - making it the most expensive Star Wars prop ever

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It's the ultimate test of brain AND brawn. So did our man FRED KELLY suffer knockout or checkmate when he tried the new craze of chessboxing?

Darth Vader's lightsaber fetches record £3.7m - making it the most expensive Star Wars prop ever

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ANDREW NEIL: Trump fears assassination by Iran. No wonder he doesn't trust Britain when we're so blasé about the threat the mullahs pose to us all

He used one to make him look 'cool'. The other dropped in for dinner all the time... as ALISON BOSHOFF asks just how close WAS Jonathan Ross to Brand and Walliams?

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I'll give you $50m and throw in security for your elderly mom, just leave me alone! What billionaire offered angry ex after dumping her for society maven, according to deliciously petty court filings

Excruciating moment top Democrat Hakeem Jeffries heckled during party unity conference: 'Do you think this is helping?'

Head of Piddington parish council's stark threat to Andy Burnham after asylum camp was rubber stamped... while Reform's Zia Yusuf made a fool of himself

Siren sounds at RAF base following 'suspected drone activity' days after US 'evacuated aircraft amid Iran threat'

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Would-be kidnapper who arrived at court as a 'woman' is jailed as judge sees through trans bid and brands him a dangerous MAN

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