The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Floral displays which graced St George’s Chapel have been shared out among charities
The flowers from the royal wedding have been shared out to charities.
Former embroideress Pauline Clayton, 89, a patient at St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney, east London, described the gift from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex as “lovely”.
Hospice officials discovered by chance that Mrs Clayton used to work for the Queen’s dressmaker Sir Norman Hartnell, when they chatted to her after the royal wedding.
The hospice, which was founded in 1905, is among a number of charities which yesterday had a special delivery of some of the white garden roses, peonies and foxgloves which surrounded the royal couple on their big day.
The flowers were admired by the staff, volunteers and visitors as they were shared out among the patients and placed in the chapel.
Floral designer Phillippa Craddock directed a team, including florists from St George’s Chapel and Buckingham Palace, to create the wedding displays at St George’s Chapel and for St George’s Hall in Windsor.
Kensington Palace has said the floral displays in St George’s Chapel were created using locally sourced foliage, much of which was taken from the gardens and parkland of the Crown Estate and Windsor Great Park.
These included branches of beech, birch and hornbeam, as well as white garden roses, peonies and foxgloves.
Father Peter-Michael Scott, the hospice’s lead chaplain, felt the flowers were a special gift from the royal couple and noted they had already made several people at the hospice smile.