JUBILEE CHINA MADE IN CITY
Pottery range to mark 70 years on throne features £65 teacup
A NEW commemorative range of chinaware to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee has gone on sale.
The set, produced by the Royal Collection Trust, includes crockery made by hand using English fine bone china and methods and techniques that are 250-years-old.
The collection was made in Stoke-on-trent to mark next year’s Platinum Jubilee.
The design and colour scheme of the range take inspiration from Her Majesty’s Robe of Estate, worn on her Coronation Day on June 2, 1953.
Set against a purple background, it features golden ears of olive and wheat and leaves, symbolising peace and plenty.
The central feature is a coat of arms with the national emblems of the UK, consisting of roses, shamrocks, thistles and daffodils.
It is framed by a circular border of oak leaves, an emblem of strength, stability and longevity.
Prices range from £65 for a teacup and saucer to £2.95 for a mini tube of Scottish shortbread biscuits. Products can be purchased online from the Royal Collection Trust website and will be sold in Royal Collection Trust shops at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, and on Buckingham Palace Road, and at Royal Collection Trust shops at Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
Meanwhile, a national tree-planting initiative has been launched to celebrate the jubilee, which will take place in June next year.
And the Queen is encouraging people across the country to pick up a spade and join in to do their part in tackling the climate crisis.
The Queen’s Green Canopy campaign invites people to ‘plant a tree for the jubilee’ or as Prince Charles calls it the ‘Tree-bilee’.
To mark the official start of the new tree planting season on October 1, The Queen and The Prince of Wales welcomed local schoolchildren to the Balmoral Estate for the planting of a copper beech tree.
The Queen joined The Prince of Wales for the first Jubilee tree planting on the grounds of Windsor Castle in spring 2021, during the tree planting season, to mark the launch of the initiative.