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It's not everyday you get greeted by Queen Victoria in your own home but for Ken Lane, it's an everyday occurrence.

Since Victoria's Royal London Wax Museum closed 10 years ago Ken Lane's basement has become home to more than 200 wax figures, according to CTV News Vancouver Island.

Lane spent 30 years at the museum as general manager.

"At Halloween, we like to startle people," said Lane. "We say, 'We have a bunch of bodiless heads in our basement, do you want to see them?'"

Most of the wax figures are disassembled and stored away. Lane's temperature-controlled basement is home to the heads, hands and other wax body parts with most figures kept in bubble wrap inside of boxes, except for Queen Victoria.

Queen Victoria was the first figure the museum featured, but now she sits in Lane's living room. Last weekend, she was joined by five other wax figures for tea, and according to Lane, it took three days to put the figures together.

"You have to pull them out and get them set up and get the clothes clean and the hair prim," he said. "Occasionally, there is a fractured or broken finger you have to fix."

The custom figures are originally from England, costing more than $20,000 each, with human hair and medical grade glass eyes.

Since the museum closed a decade ago, Lane has been searching for a new space to showcase the figures but he says it is difficult to find a spot in B.C. because of government regulations and taxes. He is looking into creating a new museum in Winnipeg or Nova Scotia. 

-With files from CTV News Vancouver Island

Photo: CTV News Vancouver Island