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Description: | Oliver's bakery of Shepherd's Bush Road, Hammersmith used this souvenir paper bag as packaging. With a silhouette portrait of the new king, it was produced in advance of Edward VIII's coronation, which was planned for 1937.
Although Edward VIII became king in January 1936, the coronation was planned for the following year. Throughout 1936, manufacturers produced many souvenirs to commemorate the impending coronation. But in December 1936, just weeks before his coronation, the king abdicated the throne when forced to choose between the Crown and his love for the divorc��e Wallis Simpson. All commemorative ware celebrating the coronation immediately became redundant, since Edward's brother was declared King George VI. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | work Identity and Icons | Temporal: | 1937 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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