- Title: 'Favourite' purple flowers and prayers for Queen Elizabeth in Windsor
- Date: 14th September 2022
- Summary: WINDSOR, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (SEPTEMBER 14, 2022)(REUTERS) WINDSOR CASTLE GATES GUARDS BY ENTRANCE, PEOPLE WATCHING FROM BEHIND BARRIERS UNION JACK BUNTING WITH CASTLE IN BACKGROUND POLICE CHECKING MANHOLE COVERS VARIOUS OF PORTRAIT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH IN SHOP WINDOW PEOPLE OUTSIDE TOURIST SHOP EXTERIOR OF 'STEMS OF WINDSOR' FLOWER SHOP, OWNER JANET DAVIES SEEN INSIDE SHOP DAVIES MAKING WREATH INTERIOR OF SHOP/ DAVIES MAKING WREATH VARIOUS OF WREATH (SOUNDBITE)(English) FLORIST, JANET DAVIES, SAYING: "So we've just sent everything just very simply wrapped which I think the Queen would have loved because she was a huge flower lover and she would have appreciated anything seasonal and local." DAVIES AND ASSISTANT WORKING IN SHOP ASSISTANT ARRANGING FLOWER BOUQUET BOUQUET (SOUNDBITE)(English) FLORIST, JANET DAVIES, SAYING: "Yes, the Queen loved purple and I'm with her on that one. I find purple flowers very beautiful. Purple, white. She loved lily of the valley, sweet peas, freesia. Scented flowers. She adored scented flowers." BOUQUET
- Embargoed: 28th September 2022 13:03
- Keywords: Queen Elizabeth
- Location: WINDSOR, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
- City: WINDSOR, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
- Country: UK
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Europe,Royals
- Reuters ID: LVA001518314092022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: People continued on Wednesday (September 14) to bring flowers to the gates of Windsor Castle, while some visited a local church to light candles and say prayers for Queen Elizabeth who died last week.
A state funeral for the Queen will be held at Westminster Abbey in London on Monday (September 19) after which she is due to be driven up the Long Walk and buried in the private St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
Janet Davies, who owns the ‘Stems of Windsor’ florist shop in the town, said there was a surge in sales after the news of the Queen's death last Thursday (September 8) and that she even received flower orders from the United States and Australia.
She said she and her staff took the flowers to the gates and took a photograph for her far-away customers.
"So we've just sent everything just very simply wrapped which I think the Queen would have loved because she was a huge flower lover and she would have appreciated anything seasonal and local," she said.
Davies, who said she first made a flower arrangement for a royal event in 1987, said purple and scented flowers were particular favourites of the Queen.
"The Queen loved purple and I'm with her on that one. I find purple flowers very beautiful. Purple, white. She loved lily of the valley, sweet peas, freesia. Scented flowers. She adored scented flowers," Davis said, adding that she had also made flower arrangements for a more recent event which was the Queen's first public appearance after the pandemic.
At the nearby Church of St John the Baptist, streams of people came to light candles and sign a book of condolences.
Preparations for the funeral were well underway while people continued to place flowers at the gates at the end of the Long Walk where double lines of barriers have been set up around the central road.
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