Part the Fourth in a four-part series.
What to buy is surely the most important issue regarding William and Kate's Royal Wedding. After all, the day will be over in the blink of (the world’s) eye, but those all-important souvenirs will last until the highest bidder gets them on eBay.
The official Royal Wedding souvenirs will look perfectly at home in your granny's china cabinet, but if you don't want to part with over £120 for the Official Royal Wedding Commemorative Loving Cup, don't worry. Every London street trader and shop owner is bringing out his or her own “Royal Wedding” memorabilia.
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Grab OTT (Britspeak for
"over the top") commemorative
tea towels and “gold”-rimmed
Royal Wedding plates (left) from
market stalls on Oxford Street"
and Piccadilly Circus.
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Home-supply store B&Q has,
tragically, run out of bride-and-
groom garden gnomes.
We trust they will refill the
shelves – and do so quickly.
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Add an, er, classy touch to your
kitchen with the Will and Kate fridge.
(And what would you put in this very
special fridge? See Tripatini's analysis
of the Kate-and-Will diet).
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Pick up the Will & Kate commemorative
cup manufactured by Guangdong
Enterprises. This item has just one
minor flaw – the designer put
the wrong prince's face on it. Oops!
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Opt for cheery kitchen
accessories, such as this tea
towel, from fashionably floral
Brit-chick Cath Kidston.
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As for me, I shall be clicking
my Brit-heels, waving my Union Jack
and scoffing cucumber sandwiches and
Pimm's (the ultimate British summer
cocktail) while on safari in South Africa,
where the only royalty I expect to see
is the king of the jungle.
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A London-based American journalist whose work has been published by the likes of Condé Nast Traveller and The New York Times, Jill Starley-Grainger loves eco-luxury travel, cutting-edge tech, free hotel WiFi – and her adopted city. Her previous posts about the Royal Wedding covered the peculiar phenomenon of Londoners fleeing the Royal Event, a primer on Royal Couple trivia, and a guide to wedding events in Old Blighty.
Top photo by Jill Starley-Grainger.
Previous posts:
Will, Kate and You. Maybe.
London Visitors' Trivia
London Prepares (To Leave Town)
Comments
Do u know anybody who actually buys this stuff?