Over the years, I have discovered that William Whiteley’s actively engaged with or had connections to Royalty and Chatsworth. In 1879, we acquired Thomas Wilkinson, who crafted scissors for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, earning Wilkinson the Roya ...
In 2003, Sheffield completed the building of its Winter Gardens which were the largest of its kind to be opened in the UK in the last 100 years. Sheffield City council invited HM Queen Elizabeth to open the gardens and wanted to give her a special gi ...
One day back in the early 90’s, at Old Whiteley’s, we received a package from a famous London jewellers. Inside was a pair of scissors belonging to the Queen which needed repairing. Not the first time we had worked on bespoke scissors for royalty, t ...