Floral surprise for the Queen’s dressmaker, 89

FLOWERS from the royal wedding have been given to charities – with some finding their way to an embroiderer who helped to make the Queen’s wedding dress.

Pauline Clayton, 89, said the flowers sent to St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney, east London, where she is having respite care, were ‘lovely’.

The hospice is among a number of charities to receive some of the white garden roses, peonies and foxgloves that surrounded Harry and Meghan.

Hospice staff learned that Mrs Clayton, pictured, worked for the Queen’s dressmaker, Sir Norman Hartnell, only during a chat after the wedding.

At 19, she worked for 49 hours on the train of Queen’s wedding dress, and later did some of the fine embroidery on the Queen’s coronation outfit.