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Every British brand that holds the King's Royal Warrant — food, fashion, drink and homeware, and the century-old stories behind each one.
The whiskies with genuine royal ties: Royal Lochnagar, distilling by royal appointment since Queen Victoria, and Laphroaig, the only Scotch to hold a Prince of Wales warrant.
A curated, price-conscious edit of genuine royal-warrant and heritage British gifts you can actually buy for under £50, with no invented bargains, just real picks.
Britain's two great royal chocolatiers: Charbonnel et Walker, born on Bond Street in 1875, and Prestat, the 1902 house that gave the world the chocolate truffle.
Smythson, the Bond Street stationer with three royal warrants: the featherweight diary, the notebooks Kate carries, and why good stationery endures.
The wines the royals love, from the King's favourite Laurent-Perrier to the royal-warrant champagnes and the English sparkling wines now winning royal favour.
The royal-warrant food and drink you can order to your door, from Fortnum's hampers to Twinings tea, the flavours of the royal table.
The British heritage china that graces the royal table: from Wedgwood, potters to royalty since 1765, to Emma Bridgewater's coronation mugs.
The royal warrant garden products behind the King's green fingers, from a 1912-warranted watering can to the Crown's seedsmen since Victoria.
The Royal Warrant fashion brands behind the King's wardrobe, from Savile Row tailors to Barbour and Lock & Co, and where to find them in London.
How King Charles turned Highgrove's organic harvest into the UK's largest organic food brand, and where to find Duchy products in London.
From a kitchen table and £600 to royal factory visits and 120 countries: the Cambridge Satchel Company is one of the great British brand stories of the modern age.
Since 1689, Ede & Ravenscroft has dressed the Crown at every coronation, robed the courts of England and Wales, and gowned graduates at universities across the world.
The story of Berry Bros & Rudd at 3 St James's Street, trading since 1698: the coffee-mill sign, the famous scales and the birth of Cutty Sark.
How Lock & Co Hatters has dressed heads from Nelson to Churchill on St James's Street since 1676, and quietly invented the bowler hat along the way.
A Royal Warrant is the Crown's quiet mark of approval. Here's what it really means, how a brand earns one, and the great British names that hold it.
From South Shields oilskins to a royal wardrobe staple, the story of how a humble waterproof became one of the most British things a person can wear.
From a coffee house off the Strand in 1706 to an unbroken line of royal warrants since 1837: the warm, remarkable story of Twinings, the tea house the Crown has trusted for nearly two centuries.
It began with a footman, some leftover candle wax and a very good idea. More than three centuries on, Fortnum & Mason remains the most celebrated grocer in the world, and a holder of the Crown's approval.
A waterproof cloth invented in a Hampshire shop, a coat shaped by war and a check known the world over: how Burberry became one of Britain's great heritage houses, with the Crown's approval to match.
How a restless Staffordshire potter's cream-coloured earthenware so charmed a queen that it earned a royal name, and a place on the nation's tables ever since.
From a barber's chair beside a Turkish bath on Jermyn Street to the royal dressing table: the fragrant, gloriously British story of Penhaligon's.