Source: CNN
Souvenir hunters are finally starting to snap up memorabilia bearing the original date of Prince Charles’s wedding after its last-minute postponement because of the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
Sales had been slow after the wedding was announced in February, reflecting wide public apathy over the heir to the British throne’s marriage to his longtime lover Camilla Parker Bowles.
At a snap tea towels, china, aprons, mugs and coffee spoons embossed with the original date have become prized collectors’ items.
“In a hundred years the story of this wedding will be in the date”, Hugh Gibson of china producers Royal Crown Derby told the Times newspaper on Tuesday.