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Published: September 17, 2022
There are groups to help you with crochet in the form of a miniature doll of Queen Elizabeth where she wears any colorful dress and hat you want, and shirts bearing her image and a limited edition of Mattel Barbie dolls that were released in honor of her 96th birthday in addition to the Platinum Jubilee displayed for sale for up to $6,600 on eBay.
Also, the increasing demand to own these items offers a glimpse into the royal memorabilia industry that rose following the death of the British monarch and is gaining strength as the world continues to mourn for 10 days until her funeral on Monday.
While many do not care about the end of her 70-year reign and King Charles taking the throne, others see profiting from this moment as disgusting, and some Canadian family fans seem eager to celebrate her 96 years of life and the change of power by owning or making memorabilia items.
London stores also say they are struggling to keep stock of Queen Elizabeth II commemorative gifts amid rising sales, the super queen.
The queen's death renewed interest in UK memorabilia in Hong Kong, where Jonara Oliveira, who runs an Etsy shop selling embroidery hoops depicting the queen and one of her beloved dogs, said: "It's a memory, people buy to have this reminder of the personality she was." Oliveira, an artist based in Surrey, British Columbia, originally from Brazil, came up with the idea of royal hoops when she was learning about the queen to prepare for the citizenship test, and started selling them before the queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June, where sales were strong, but stopped in the following weeks.
Demand rose again when the queen died on September 8 last week, selling four times the average of the past six months, and searches for her products rose by 110 percent, with her store visits now higher than during the jubilee. Canada Post saw a similar pattern with Platinum Jubilee stamps issued in the winter. Also, Canada Post spokesperson Lisa Lio said that compared to the five weeks before September 8, silver stamp sales increased by 900 percent last week. She wrote in an email: "For context, these stamps were first issued for sale in February, so sales had settled before that." "However, we have definitely seen an increase in sales since Her Majesty the Queen's death."
The royal memorabilia rush was not a surprise to David Superman because the queen’s death is a "massive" event most people have not seen before, with the marketing professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto saying: "It represents the longest reign in British history, which is absolutely incredible, when you think about it, people think they won’t make these (items) anymore because she is no longer the queen and they want to have something to remember her by."
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