The Queen’s official lingerie supplier, Rigby & Peller, has lost its royal warrant after the founder of the company released a tell-all book, it has been reported.
June Kenton, 82, released “Storm in a D-Cup” in March 2017, which has resulted in the Queen ending her long working relationship with the company, who held the royal warrant for 57 years.
Kenton was said to have published intimate details about measuring the half-dressed monarch during bra fittings, but she’s since defended the book and said, “It’s a kind and gentle story about what went on in my life.”
She insisted, according to the BBC: “I only ever said I went there [to Buckingham Palace], not what happened. I have never ever spoken about what I do there with her, or the Queen Mother or Princess Margaret.
“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.”
She added: “I’ve been honourable throughout my life. It’s unbelievable they don’t like the book, there’s nothing in it that they could remotely be upset about.
“It’s a sweet story of a corsetiere. I probably should have submitted it to them but I didn’t think anything would be required.”
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Mrs. Kenton bought Rigby & Peller with her husband Harold for $34,000 in 1982. They later sold a majority stake to Belgian lingerie company Van de Velde for around C$13 million in 2011.
Russell Tanguay, director of warrants at the Royal Warrant Holders Association, said of the company losing their ability to fit the Queen’s bras: “This would have been in the middle of last year.
“We don’t go into details,” he added, according to the Daily Express.
Buckingham Palace also refused to comment, insisting: “In respect of royal warrants, we never comment on individual companies.”
