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Prince Charles's wardrobe

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From The Daily Beast, along with some other non-sartorial royal tidbits:

 

Prince Charles employs 133 staff to look after him and Camilla, more than 60 of them domestics: chefs, cooks, footmen, housemaids, gardeners, chauffeurs, cleaners, and his three personal valets—gentleman’s gentlemen—whose sole responsibility is the care of their royal master’s extensive wardrobe and choosing what he is to wear on any particular day. A serving soldier polishes the prince’s boots and shoes every day—he has 50 handmade pairs each costing over £800 by Lobb of St James’s—and a housemaid washes his underwear as soon as it is discarded. Nothing Charles or Camilla wears is ever allowed near a washing machine. Particular attention is paid to handkerchiefs, which are monogrammed and again all hand-washed, as it was found that when they were sent to a laundry, some would go missing—as souvenirs. HRH’s suits, of which he has 60, cost more than £3,000 each, and his shirts, all handmade, cost £350 a time (he has more than 200), while his collar stiffeners are solid gold or silver. Charles’s valets also iron the laces of his shoes whenever they are taken off.

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I wonder if they only iron the flat laces, or if they do the rounded ones as well.

post #3 of 45
Great news, this will take teh Forums obsession with shoe lace knots to a new plateau
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Not to mention collar stiffeners.

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Originally Posted by Von Franz View Post

Not to mention collar stiffeners.

I believe the round laces are hand rolled in warm bee's wax after each use. fight[1].gif

Nothing is worse than a slippery round (non waxed) lace.
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I believe the round laces are hand rolled in warm bee's wax after each use. fight[1].gif
Nothing is worse than a slippery round (non waxed) lace.


I had no idea. 

Makes a lot of sense, come to think of it.

Seems like it'd allow them to stay tied for much longer.

Thanks for th' knowledge.


Edited by Von Franz - 11/7/11 at 1:45pm
post #7 of 45
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I don't know if I would use such heavy collar stays. And yet I believe photos of his collars look pretty good, so maybe it doesn't matter so much?

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not with the People's money, i hope
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Originally Posted by Trompe le Monde View Post

not with the People's money, i hope

Who's else money would they use?
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Originally Posted by Saturdays View Post

Who's else money would they use?

I'd imagine that the government gets a lot more from the Crown Estates than what the royal family uses. At last count, the valuation of the Crown Estate properties were somewhere north of £7/$11 billion.
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Originally Posted by Trompe le Monde View Post

not with the People's money, i hope



They are the Royal family; they have estates.

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Originally Posted by Kent Wang View Post

I don't know if I would use such heavy collar stays. And yet I believe photos of his collars look pretty good, so maybe it doesn't matter so much?



Good metal workers should be make thin collar stays out of gold or silver, no?

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this thread needs pics - I've seen some pics of a pair of his Lobbs that were beautifully worn, repaired, polished, repaired, recrafted, worn, and worn some more. They had a huge amount of character to them.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1186234/Ones-antique-clothes-How-Prince-Charles-king-wardrobe-recycling.html
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So that's...
£40,000 on shoes.
£180,000 on suits.
£70,000 on shirts.
plus whatever lavish amounts of The People's money on everything else. Then we wonder why the Royal Household budget is so bloody high. Perhaps His Royal Highness should go shopping at Marks & Spencer instead.
Edited by MikeDT - 11/6/11 at 11:26pm
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Dupe post, getting errors from SF. Mods please delete.
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