Royal courtiers wanted to block the sale of ‘tasteless’ memorabilia when Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II married Prince Philip in 1947.
Papers released today by the National Archives at Kew, west London, revealed that members of Britain’s Royal Court took their concerns over the wedding souvenirs to the Home Office.
The courtiers were particularly annoyed about the ‘undesirable’ handkerchiefs, produced by the Cheadle Fabric Factory.
However, a Home Office official responded by saying they were acceptable so long as nobody blew their noses on the royal portraits adorning them.
Further complaints came from Home Office official Frederick Dadd, who objected to Union Jack Flags featuring images of the couple.
Dadd claimed the portraits looked like ‘caricatures’ and complained: ‘The representation of the flag is very inaccurate. It is upside down and the horizontal parts of the St George’s Cross are not the same thickness ad the vertical.’ Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reports that despite the uproar, the Home Office ultimately concluded: ‘There are no enforceable rules prohibiting manufacture of articles which, it is considered, should not bear the royal portrait.’
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