Royal christening gowns were dyed with Yorkshire Tea

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Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis and Archie’s gowns for the Royal christening were dyed in Royal’s favourite and strongest tea in the UK. Rachel Bowie, a podcaster claimed that the Queen’s favourite dresser dyed the gown for royal babies christening with a tea for that perfect colour. Tea is known to be very cheap, strong, and easily accessible for the British public. 

Rachel Bowie, a host of Royally Obsessed said: “The most interesting fact that I found about this tea that the Royal christening gowns that Prince George, Charlotte, Louis, and Archie wore were dyed with this tea. 

“So Angela Kelly, she said that they were used to make it look more authentic and they used Yorkshire tea because it was the strongest. 

“And of course, it’s like it’s for £3 for 80 bags, and its super cheap, its really strong and they like have to be brewed for 3-4 mins, after a minute get it out, like its really strong. It’s been great.”

The Royal christening gown was commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1841 which as worn by 62 royal babies in the last 163 years. The Queen commissioned her dressmaker Angela Kelly to make a replica in 2004 as the old gown was too fragile for further use. 

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The previous Honiton lace gown was worn by King Edward VII, King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI and our Queen, while the one gown was worn by Lady Louise’s younger brother, James, Viscount Severn, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis and the most recent by Prince Harry and Meghan’s son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor.

Dressmaker Angela Kelly confided in her book ‘The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, The Dresser and the Wardrobe’ about the trick told Hello Magazine: “Together, we sourced lace to complement that being made in Italy, and to make sure it looked authentic we dyed it in Yorkshire tea (the strongest, as we all know).

We placed each piece of lace in a small bowl, from the Dressers’ Kitchen, filled with cool water and a teabag, and left it for about five minutes, checking regularly until the colour was perfect.

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“At each stage of the process, I would show our progress to the Queen: first the bodice, then the sleeves attached to it, then the skirt with the under-layers on, and finally the completed robe.

Her Majesty was very interested to see how it was developing. From start to finish, it had taken us, appropriately, nine months.

While the original one was made by Janet Sutherland which used the Spitalfields silk and Honiton lace. 

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Archie Mountbatten-Windsor was christened in 2019 in the private chapel of the Windsor Castle by the Archbishop of Canterbury. 

The statement was released on his christening, it said: “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are overjoyed to share the happiness of this day, and would like to thank everyone around the world for their ongoing support,” reads a statement released in honor of the day.

“They feel so fortunate to have enjoyed this special moment with family and Archie’s godparents.”

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