Old 'loo’ seat for Prince
NZPA London Prince Charles, who recently disclosed a collector’s passion for old toilets, has been given a belated thirtythird birthday present — a Victorian lavatory seat from a house near Birmingham. The gift, bought for him by the West End comedy club. The Last Laugh, was presented. appropriately enough, at the Privy Purse entrance at the front of Buckingham Palace, but three policemen on duty there insisted that its proper place was the tradesmen's entrance. The Prince of Wales, whose birthday was on Saturday. told curators at the National Railway Museum about his unusual’hobby during a visit to the ’ York institution. London antique dealer. Mr James Cunningham, who specialises in period lavatories, came up with what he thought would be the perfect gift for Prince Charles — an 1895 100, as the British call it, encrusted with what he said looked like Prince of Wales feathers. Cash for the seat was raised by patrons at The Last Laugh, who appended this note to the gift: “From your loyal and good humoured subjects."
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Press, 25 November 1981, Page 16
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