Bad ma’ammaries: Lingerie firm dumped for tittle tattle
A LINGERIE retailer that supplied underwear to the Queen has been stripped of its royal warrant because the firm’s director wrote a book revealing details of her work with the royal family.
London-based Rigby & Peller has used the privileged seal on products since 1960 but confirmed it was “deeply saddened” by the royal household warrants committee’s decision to cancel it.
June Kenton, director of the firm, published Storm in a D
Cup, which details visits to Buckingham Palace and her relationship with the Queen, the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and other royals.
In a statement yesterday, the company said: “The royal household warrants committee has decided to cancel the royal warrant granted to Rigby & Peller and Mrs June Kenton.
“Rigby & Peller is saddened by this decision and is not able to elaborate further on the cancellation out of respect for Her Majesty. However, we will continue to provide a discreet service to clients.”
Buckingham Palace said it would not comment.
Mrs Kenton, 82, included an anecdote about the Queen Mother ignoring Princess Margaret’s opinions on hats.
“I pretend to listen to Margaret and then, once she’s gone, I order what I want,” the book quoted the Queen Mother as saying.
Mrs Kenton, who fit the Queen’s bras, also included details about Princess Diana and princes William and Harry. “I used to give her lingerie and swimwear posters for them to put up in their studies at Eton,” she wrote.
She also described her first meeting with the Queen and the first time she entered the royal bedroom.
“It’s very sad to have ended like this. I am completely and utterly heartbroken,” Mrs Kenton said. “I apologise for anything I might have done or said in the book. It was totally unintentional. I just think the world of them.”