Titanic passenger’s robe goes on display

A luxurious robe belonging to one of the Titanic’s most controversial survivors has been added to a popular exhibition about the doomed liner.

Fashion designer Lucy Duff Gordon and her husband, Cosmo Duff Gordon, escaped the sinking ship on the so-called “millionaires’ lifeboat” and faced allegations that they bribed crew members not to return to save others for fear the half-full boat would be swamped.

They always vehemently denied the claims, and the bribery accusations were subsequently rejected by an inquiry into the sinking, but the story still entered Titanic folklore and has endured more than a century on.