Queen Elizabeth leaves the Easter Sunday service in Windsor Castle, in Windsor, April 16, 2017.REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
Where do you think the queen shops for her regular household goods and clothes? One might think it is unlikely for Queen Elizabeth II to shop for herself. However, she does have her favorite share of shops.
If you crave a hat from the queen’s own milliner, you have to get to the right place in Central London.
Here’s a list of the queen’s favorite shops and what she buys from each one of them:
Based in Crown Passage, St. James, in Central London, Rachel Trevor-Morgan, the Royal Warrant milliner has been the queen’s hat maker since 2006. The hat designer from Stourbridge creates an average of 10 hats a year for her majesty. She was also commissioned for Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins, and Princess Diana’s hats.
In 2008, the John Lewis store obtained the Royal Warrant as a supplier of household items and fancy goods, according to the Campaign magazine. Frank Smythson Ltd, one of the only eight companies in the world to acquire four Royal Warrants that of the queen, her mother, Prince Charles and Duke of Edinburgh at the same time, also has been a manufacturer of leather goods and luxury stationery for the royal family.
The queen wears her signature heels almost every time and she’s worn the same style for almost five decades now. Originally the monarch used to purchase her heels from the British company Rayne, according to the Telegraph. However, the store went out of business and her majesty was so determined to get her hands on those signature heels that she tracked down one of the former employees named David Hyatt who started to supply to the queen later on.
Rigby & Peller was granted the Royal Warrant in 1960 as the queen’s corsetiere. However, June Kenton was bestowed with the responsibility of providing bespoke undergarments for the queen in 1982 and was personally granted the Royal Warrant. Rigby & Peller provided merchandise to Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, as well.
