Are you lacking gift ideas for your cousin, who is crazy about Kate, and your little nephew, who is a Buckingham fan? We’ve found some gems for you to shine under the tree.
Home stretch in the race for gifts. Here are some ideas to please everyone who is passionate about the British royal family. Or those who love princesses, corgis, and candy. That is to say everyone.
• To hang in the tree
For a tree with a royal look, hang decorations in corgi shape (13.50 pounds) – Elizabeth II’s favorite dog – of Buckingham Palace (40 pounds) -or even balls bearing the chiffres of Charles III (8.95 euros). To buy on the official store of Buckinghamof Sandringham and of Tower Bridge.
• Princess dresses
Do you know the story of Elizabeth II’s wedding dress? And that of Diana’s “revenge dress”, worn by the Princess of Wales to enrage Charles? These episodes and many others, Thomas Pernette, head of the royalty department at Point de vue magazine, recounts them in Princess dresses, Windsor style. There is a lot of talk about glamour, but also about politics, history and diplomacy. A book full of anecdotes, illustrations and princesses, published by E/P/A.
The secrets of princess dresses
Princess dresses. Windsor styleby Thomas Pernette, illustrated by Ludivine Joséphine, editions E/P/A, 208 pages, 30 euros.
• Buckingham blueberry candies
They are blue and sparkling. Buckingham blueberry candies, sold on the official palace store, are tangy and presented in a pretty box. There are also strawberry marshmallows and crunchy red fruit candies.
Buckingham Palace Fizzy Blueberry Sweets, 4.5 pounds (5.40 euros), on the official Buckingham store.
• Cook like in Buckingham
Tom Parker Bowles, food critic and son of Queen Camilla, reveals in his book, The Crown Recipes, the dishes tasted at Buckingham. From his exploration of the royal archives, he kept the most feasible and the most suited to contemporary taste buds and schedules, because, as he notes not without humor:
“These days, few people have the time, the skill or the desire to debone a snipe, stuff a boar’s head, roast a whole leg of beef or spend three days preparing a pheasant pâté with dumplings.”
Crown RecipesMarabout editions, Tom Parker Bowles, 240 pages, 35 euros
• Spend time with Elizabeth
On the occasion of the exhibition on royal portraits, “Royal Portraits, a century of photography”, the Royal Collection trust has published a calendar. With each month a different portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. In June, it is a photo of her coronation which illustrates the calendar, since Elizabeth was crowned on June 2, 1953. And in October, the month of the death of the sovereign, it is a photo of the elderly queen which was chosen.
Elizabeth II, Charles III… How the royal family builds its myth with its official portraits
Royal portrait calendar, 5 pounds (6 euros).
