THE BRITISH Royal Christmas family church service has seen a touch of Spain on the front-row pew on the last three occasions – Princess Charlotte's coats have been coming from Marae at Amaia Kids, based in Zamora (Castilla y León), since she was two.
Now four, she was wearing a bottle-green double-buttoned wool coat on Christmas Day when four generations of the Royals went to church, in accordance with tradition – although not including Prince Andrew who, due to the scandal that erupted due to his old friend Jeffrey Epstein's being found guilty of child abuse, has stepped out of the limelight and official duties.
Zamora-based brothers Manoli and Raúl Escudero received an order three weeks ago at their textiles workshop, Zaust, in Coreses, close to the eastern Portuguese border, for a made-to-measure coat for the young Princess.
The design is by Amaia Arrieta, from San Sebastián, who has a branch of her childrenswear collections in London which is one of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's favourites for dressing Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
According to the Escudero brothers, the coat commissioned was exactly the same as the one the Duchess of Cambridge first chose from the shop at Christmas 2017 and is one of the Marae range's most-sold items.
That time, the coat came in maroon and Princess Charlotte's photograph wearing it on her first day at nursery school in January 2018 made the covers of fashion magazines all over the world.
Given how fast very small children grow, she has not, clearly, been able to wear the same coat for more than one winter at a time, so by Christmas 2018 she was seen at the annual service wearing a blue one – but not by the public, as not photographs were taken on that occasion.
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