Napoleon's shirt worn in exile and English letter go on display

A Madras and the shirt worn by Napoleon on St Helena are displayed at Waterloo Battlefield Museum in Braine-L'Alleud, before being put on auction by Bonhams for the bicentenary of Napoleon's death, Belgium, May 11, 2021. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

WATERLOO, Belgium (Reuters) - A shirt worn by Napoleon during his exile on the island of Saint Helena in the south Atlantic and a letter he wrote there to practise his English have gone on display at a museum in Belgium ahead of an auction later this year in Britain.

A silk scarf he wore around his head on the windswept British outpost is also on show, along with a walking stick made from a narwhal tooth, a rare and precious object from the exiled former French emperor's daily life on Saint Helena.