LONDON, Nov 24 (Reuters) – Camilla, the spouse of Britain’s King Charles, personally delivered dozens of Paddington Bear toys to a youngsters’s charity on Thursday, giving a brand new house to the toys which had been left by well-wishers as a tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth.
Mourners positioned greater than 1,000 Paddingtons and different teddy bears among the many mass of floral tributes and messages which had been left outdoors palaces and royal parks in London and Windsor within the days of mourning following Elizabeth’s dying in September.
The stuffed bears have been professionally cleaned, and on Friday Camilla, the queen consort, visited a Barnardo’s Nursery in east London for a ‘teddy bears picnic’ that includes marmalade sandwiches, and at hand out a number of the Paddingtons to weak younger youngsters there.
She was joined by two of the solid from the current Paddington movies, Hugh Bonneville and Madeleine Harris, who performed Mr Brown and Judy Brown within the film variations of the kids’s books.
The royal hyperlink to Paddington stems from a video in June, when the then monarch appeared having tea with the kids’s literary character which grew to become one of many highlights of 4 days of celebrations to mark her seventieth yr on the throne.
Throughout the comedian sketch, she instructed Paddington she all the time stored the character’s favorite – a marmalade sandwich – in her ever-present purse.
Reporting by Michael Holden, Modifying by Kylie MacLellan
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