By Dean Murray via SWNS An auction of Fleetwood Mac icon Christine McVie's items has made $1.3m (£1m) for charity. Over 650 of the English songwriter's belongings from her home in London went under the hammer.

Christine McVie had already spent several years in Fleetwood Mac when Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined the band. In the Nicks-Buckingham era of the band, McVie wrote many of the band’s hits and frequently closed out their concerts with her song “Songbird.

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The late singer and keys player Christine McVie was recently divorced from her bandmate, guitarist John McVie, while Buckingham was in a tumultuous on-off relationship with singer Stevie Nicks. Meanwhile co-founder Mick Fleetwood had recently discovered his wife,