p16 p17 diary Princess Anne with Chairman Angus Cundey meeting Stavros Sofroniou during her visit to tailors Henry Poole & Co in Londonís Savile Row. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday January 23, 2013. During the Princess Royalís visit, she presented the tailors with the Queenís Award for Enterprise in International Trade, which The Queen conferred to the company in April 2012. Photo credit should read: David Parry/PA
David Parry/PA
24 January 2013
Princess Anne graced Savile Row with her presence yesterday, when she visited Henry Poole & Co to present the tailor’s with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade.
The strangest thing they’ve been asked to fashion recently? A set of embroidered waistcoats for a woman’s much-loved toy monkey. But another tailor on the row topped this — he’d once been asked by a pop star to make a smoking jacket for a real pet monkey. “Of course we said no,” he confided. “There are some things that Savile Row simply won’t stoop to.”
