Rigby & Peller: Queen’s bra fitter loses royal warrant over tell-all book
Royal warrant withdrawn after former owner describes fittings with Queen Mother and Princess Diana
The Queen’s bra-fitter, Rigby & Peller, has been banished from the palace after its former owner penned a memoir describing her close encounters with royals.
After losing the royal warrant granted to favoured suppliers, the luxury underwear brand must now remove all signs of the royal coat of arms from its seven London stores.
Former owner June Kenton, now 82, spent more than 30 years as the official “corsetiere” to the royals before publishing her autobiography in March 2017.
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The book, entitled Storm in a D-Cup, recounts her time at the head of Rigby & Peller, which she purchased in 1982, but also includes intimate details of fittings with the Queen, Princess Margaret and Princess Diana.
In one passage, she writes about “measuring the half-dressed monarch in front of her corgis”, The Sun reports, while another portion recounts a conversation with the Queen Mother.
According to Kenton, Princess Diana would reportedly take home “posters showing models in lingerie and swimwear to give to princes William and Harry to display in their Eton studies”, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Kenton, who sold her majority stake in the firm in 2011 but continued to sit on the board of directors, said that the palace reaction to the book - which she describes as “gentle” - had been “horrible and a real shock”.
"I never ever thought when I was writing the book that it would upset anyone,” she told the Telegraph. “I’ve had the royal warrant for so long I never imagined that this would happen.”
"I think it's unbelievable. It's just upsetting at the end of my life, but what can I do. I can't fight with Buckingham Palace and I wouldn't want to, but it's hard.”
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