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Reading several posts regarding SR tailors and Royal Warrants, can anyone explain these? Are they contractual in nature? Who initiates them? How are they obtained or broken? To what other services than bespoke clothing does a Warrant apply? Are there different types of Warrants?

These sites will have all the information you seek:

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page319.asp

http://www.royalwarrant.org/history.asp

Please see the official website which explains the background:

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page319.asp

Edit: crossed postings, I was too slow

Royal Warrants, in the British usage, are bestowed on individuals at firms that provide goods or services to the Royal Households for a period of, I believe, three years. The goods are supposed to be paid for, rather than freebies. The warrant is good for five years and then must be renewed. One thing you will notice, say in the case of tailored goods, is that there are many categories of goods for which warrants are bestowed and many branches of the Royal household that may bestow them. Dege, for example, holds a Royal Warrant as tailor to H.M. the Queen since 1984, because it provides or has provided, among other things, uniforms for the Queen’s Brigade of Guards, for the Household Cavalry and for the Royal Company of Archers, the Queen’s Body Guard in Scotland, not because it makes her dresses. Gieves & Hawkes, for example, also has a similar warrant from H.M. The Queen, as does Poole and, I am sure, others.

Besides by H.M. The Queen, warrants can be bestowed by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh and, at one time, H.M. The Queen Mother.


More information can be found here: http://www.royalwarrant.org/

Thanks to all.
Chris

dopey wrote:Royal Warrants, in the British usage, are bestowed on individuals at firms that provide goods or services to the Royal Households for a period of, I believe, three years. The goods are supposed to be paid for, rather than freebies. The warrant is good for five years and then must be renewed. One thing you will notice, say in the case of tailored goods, is that there are many categories of goods for which warrants are bestowed and many branches of the Royal household that may bestow them. Dege, for example, holds a Royal Warrant as tailor to H.M. the Queen since 1984, because it provides or has provided, among other things, uniforms for the Queen’s Brigade of Guards, for the Household Cavalry and for the Royal Company of Archers, the Queen’s Body Guard in Scotland, not because it makes her dresses. Gieves & Hawkes, for example, also has a similar warrant from H.M. The Queen, as does Poole and, I am sure, others.

Besides by H.M. The Queen, warrants can be bestowed by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh and, at one time, H.M. The Queen Mother.


More information can be found here: http://www.royalwarrant.org/

Just to reiterate, 'By Appointment to HM The Queen' might simply mean it is supplied to the those working in the Household (at whatever level). Careful scrutiny of www.royalwarrant.org will usually reveal how to interpret the warrant.