text: From solar-powered models of the Queen to a £1,200 Wedgwood bust of Prince Charles, there's no item of royal memorabilia too big or too small for royalist Margaret Tyler. The pensioner, 71, has been collecting royal-themed knick-knacks for more than 40 years and now boasts a collection worth £10,000. But squeezing it all into her small terraced home hasn't been easy and her gargantuan collection now fills four whole rooms, including one dedicated to Princess Diana alone. Scroll down for video . Passionate: Margaret Tyler, 71, has amassed a vast collection of royal memorabilia . Despite having a home that quite literally bursts with items, Mrs Tyler, a mother-of-four, says she has no plans to stop collecting and describes it as 'a labour of love'. 'There's loads of royal magazines that I read, so I get up at about 4.30am to keep up with it all,' she reveals. 'I'm retired but I don't think I've actually ever worked so hard in my life. It takes a lot of work [to maintain] but it's a labour of love.' As well as collecting royal memorabilia, Mrs Tyler, a retired charity worker, is also obsessed with meeting the real thing and says she spent six days outside the Lindo Wing at St. Mary's Hospital in London when Prince George was born. 'I was there for six days,' she beams. '[My son] Andrew was born at St. Mary's and I was only there for two days. 'I just wanted to feel close to them [William and Kate], I suppose. I spent the time meeting people, and chatting.I was convinced it was going to be a girl, but it wasn't.' Extensive: Her collection includes china, a solar powered Queen and thousands of photos . Got it! A copy of the Duchess of Cambridge's £450 Issa engagement dress is in the collection . Although Mrs Tyler, who considers the Royal Family and extension of her own, didn't shake hands with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on that occasion, she has met a number of senior royals, among them the Queen. 'I've met a lot of them,' she reveals. 'I've met the Queen, I've met Prince Andrew and Prince Charles so I've been very lucky.' But despite considering herself lucky to have met so many royals, it is collecting that is her real passion and she has amassed around 10,000 items over 40 years. These are stored in four rooms, each with a different royal theme. Her drawing room is devoted to the Queen, while another, known as the Sandringham Room, has been turned into a £75-a-night B&B for royal enthusiasts. Her front room contains items created for every royal event in the past century, among them the 1953 Coronation and the 2012 Diamond Jubilee, while another space, dubbed 'the Memorial Room' is devoted exclusively to Princess Diana. Meeting: Mrs Tyler has met several members of the Royal Family including the Queen and Prince Charles . Favourite: Princess DIana remains one of Mrs Tyler's favourite royals and has an entire room to her name . Homage: Mrs Tyler in her Princess Diana room. Her favourite painting is seen on the back wall (centre) Inside are some of her most prized possessions, among them a Diana handbag, a set of Diana-themed matrioshka dolls and a stained glass window that Mrs Tyler commissioned in 1998 - a year after the princess' death. The room also boasts a fresco of the late princess painted on the ceiling and a large oil painting of Diana with her sons William and Harry. 'I think that says it all about Diana,' she says of the painting. 'She was a mother first and foremost.' Nevertheless, items devoted to Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall also occupy a considerable amount of the floor-space, as do the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. And while much of the collection might be made up of novelty items picked up at London markets, other items, such as a £450 Issa dress identical to the one worn by the Duchess of Cambridge for her engagement announcement, didn't come cheap. Despite the outlay and her rapidly diminishing space, Mrs Tyler says she will go on collecting royal memorabilia 'forever'. 'Enough is never enough,' she beams. 'It's an ongoing story isn't it? When William and Catherine's baby is born, it will be the Queen's fifth great-grandchild. 'It doesn't stop dead. You can't pretend that life isn't going on for them. Anyway, I just love it! Not even the dusting gets me down.'
target: Margaret Tyler, 71, has been collecting royal novelties for 40 years .
  The retired charity worker has amassed a collection worth £10,000 .
  Most of the items are novelties but there are more expensive pieces .
  Among them are a £1,200 Wedgwood bust of the Prince of Wales .
  Collection is spread through four rooms, one of which is devoted to Diana .
  The 'Memorial Room' includes a special ceiling fresco and stained glass .
  Margaret Tyler appears on Collectaholics, tonight at 7pm on BBC2 .