Royal Collection suspends jubilee gift sales

THE Royal Collection Trust has suspended all its jubilee souvenir sales amid “unprecedented demand”.

The charity has told shoppers that it will start taking online orders for memorabilia again in a few days, and is encouraging customers to visit a store in person instead.

It has been inundated with requests for chinaware, glasses, chocolate and tea towels ahead of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations this weekend.

A message on the Royal Collection Trust website reads: “Due to unprecedented demand, we have had to suspend orders temporarily. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

“If you have already placed an order, we are working hard to fulfil existing orders as quickly as possible, and you will receive a shipment email upon dispatch.”

The Royal Collection Trust’s official range of goods to celebrate the Jubilee went on sale in November last year.

Each item of its official chinaware selection is made of English fine bone china by hand in Stoke-on-trent using methods and techniques that have remained unchanged for 250 years.

The range includes a teacup and saucer (£65.00), a mug (£25.00), a tank- ard (£40.00), a side plate (£40.00) and a pillbox (£45.00).

Hand-cut crystal tot glasses, sandblasted and engraved with a Platinum Jubilee emblem, are on sale for £18.95.

For £35, customers can buy a set of souvenir spoons made in County Durham using English lead-free pewter.

They are plated in 24-carat gold and topped with a hand-painted coronation motif.

A Platinum Jubilee marks 70 years of a monarch’s reign, and Queen Elizabeth II will be the first British monarch to reach the milestone.