Rigby & Peller built an extraordinary position inside Britain’s royal wardrobe after beginning to supply bespoke undergarments to the Queen in 1960. Over the following decades, June Kenton personally fitted members of the royal family, including Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, Diana, Princess of Wales, and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. The company’s reputation depended heavily on discretion: Kenton publicly insisted that she would not identify the particular bras or undergarments worn by individual royals. That boundary was tested by her 2017 autobiography, Storm in a D-Cup, which described her visits to Buckingham Palace and her experiences dealing with royal clients. Although the book did not necessarily publish a complete catalogue of private garments, the disclosures were judged sufficiently incompatible with the expectations surrounding the royal appointment. On 11 January 2018, Rigby & Peller lost its Royal Warrant, ending nearly six decades of official royal association and converting a story of intimate access and trusted service into a highly publicized confidentiality controversy. The episode demonstrated how luxury fashion businesses can be undone not by poor craftsmanship or financial collapse, but by the perceived breach of an intensely guarded relationship between a supplier and its most famous clientele.
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The Royal Warrant Revoked After Rigby & Peller’s Palace Revelations
Rigby & Peller / June Kenton / 2010s
Rigby & Peller built an extraordinary position inside Britain’s royal wardrobe after beginning to supply bespoke undergarments to the Queen in 1960. Over the following decades, June Kenton personally fitted members of the royal family, including Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, Diana, Princess of Wales, and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. The company’s reputation depended heavily on discretion: Kenton publicly insisted that she would not identify the particular bras or undergarments worn by individual royals. That boundary was tested by her 2017 autobiography, Storm in a D-Cup, which described her visits to Buckingham Palace and her experiences dealing with royal clients. Although the book did not necessarily publish a complete catalogue of private garments, the disclosures were judged sufficiently incompatible with the expectations surrounding the royal appointment. On 11 January 2018, Rigby & Peller lost its Royal Warrant, ending nearly six decades of official royal association and converting a story of intimate access and trusted service into a highly publicized confidentiality controversy. The episode demonstrated how luxury fashion businesses can be undone not by poor craftsmanship or financial collapse, but by the perceived breach of an intensely guarded relationship between a supplier and its most famous clientele.
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