Prince Harry Is Getting Married. Time for Themed Mugs and Nightclub Tours.
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Prince Harry Is Getting Married. Time for Themed Mugs and Nightclub Tours.
Ms. Bridgewater’s company has sold over 35,000 pieces of pottery based around Prince William’s wedding
and has produced 15 different commemorative mugs for events ranging from Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s wedding in 1986, to the birth of Prince William’s second child, Princess Charlotte, in 2015.
A dedicated royalist, Ms. Tyler, 73, has filled her home in northwest London with commemorative items, including a copy of the Issa dress
that Kate Middleton wore during the announcement of her engagement to Prince William, and a little glass dish with a picture of Queen Elizabeth II that started her collection.
Ms. Bridgewater has another mug and tea towel planned for the wedding next year, as well as a mug to celebrate the third child of Prince William
and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, due in April.
“I would like nice proper bone china stuff,” Ms. Tyler said of the merchandise surrounding the latest royal wedding.
“I think they just look for an excuse to be able to do it, every time there’s a birth, wedding, engagement, anniversary, anything,” Ms. Hugo said.
It is also hoping to tap into heightened interest in the United States — Ms. Markle is
American — to push its products in places like Bloomingdale’s and Bergdorf Goodman
Brand Finance estimates that travelers in town for Prince Harry’s wedding, scheduled for the spring, will bring an additional £500 million next year.
When Prince William married in 2011, the high-end British department store Fortnum
& Mason sold a Wedding Breakfast Blend tea from Kenya, where he proposed.
The next week, just under 1,000 mugs — with “Harry & Meghan are engaged,” and the date of the announcement on them — were on sale.
Ms. Bridgewater’s company has sold over 35,000 pieces of pottery based around Prince William’s wedding
and has produced 15 different commemorative mugs for events ranging from Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s wedding in 1986, to the birth of Prince William’s second child, Princess Charlotte, in 2015.
A dedicated royalist, Ms. Tyler, 73, has filled her home in northwest London with commemorative items, including a copy of the Issa dress
that Kate Middleton wore during the announcement of her engagement to Prince William, and a little glass dish with a picture of Queen Elizabeth II that started her collection.
Ms. Bridgewater has another mug and tea towel planned for the wedding next year, as well as a mug to celebrate the third child of Prince William
and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, due in April.
“I would like nice proper bone china stuff,” Ms. Tyler said of the merchandise surrounding the latest royal wedding.
“I think they just look for an excuse to be able to do it, every time there’s a birth, wedding, engagement, anniversary, anything,” Ms. Hugo said.
It is also hoping to tap into heightened interest in the United States — Ms. Markle is
American — to push its products in places like Bloomingdale’s and Bergdorf Goodman
Brand Finance estimates that travelers in town for Prince Harry’s wedding, scheduled for the spring, will bring an additional £500 million next year.
When Prince William married in 2011, the high-end British department store Fortnum
& Mason sold a Wedding Breakfast Blend tea from Kenya, where he proposed.
The next week, just under 1,000 mugs — with “Harry & Meghan are engaged,” and the date of the announcement on them — were on sale.