When did the Royal Family remove their "By Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen", etc seals from Harrods?

Question

When did the Royal Family remove their "By Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen", etc seals from Harrods?

Answer 1

January 2000.........

See link to newspaper article

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.j...

Answer 2

Dec. 31, 2000

The Duke of Edinburgh removed his Royal Warrant from Harrods.

Answer 3

The Royal family didn't remove them, Harrods just didn't apply to have them renewed and got rid of them themselves.  

Answer 4

The Royal Family never removed the Royal Warrants for all products from Harrods, the Royal Warrants Committee that governs the issuance of them did. The Queen, The Prince of Wales & The Duke of Edinburgh are the only members of the Royal Family whom are allowed to issue Royal Warrants as previously before her death, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was allowed to issue too until her death in 2002 and after a period of five years all warrants issued for a deceased Royal are automatically cancelled.

The British Royal Family may not have liked the aspersions cast by Mohamed Al-Fayed about the supposed involvement of The Duke of Edinburgh in a plot with MI6 to assassinate Diana, The Princess of Wales but this has been proven absurd and didn't in any part contribute to the Harrods' warrants being revoked.

Answer 5

It's a long story.  Harrods is currently owned by Mohammed al-Fayed, father of Dodi al-Fayed.  Dodi was dating Lady Diana and died with her in the same car.  This brought a great deal of media attention on the Spencer-Fayed relationship--since Di and Charles had divorced, it wouldn't do for the royal family to be shopping at a store owned by the family of her new squeeze.  Thus since 1997 no purchases have been made at Harrods in the name of the royals.

In order not to be seen as spiteful, and more to point to avoid setting a precedent that royal warrants allowing firms to use seals such as "By Appointment to H. M. etc" could easily be tossed aside over personal issues, all of the warrants remained in place for the time being.  Prince Philip revoked his own in 2001, and either out of spite or recognizing that the royals no longer wanted their warrant seals to be displayed by Harrods, the elder al-Fayed had them all removed.

Many remain, in the official sense, in force, so while al-Fayed could try putting them back on, at this point it would likely just provoke the rest of the royal family to withdraw their personal warrants.

Answer 6

Possibly when the owner decided that The Royal Family were behind the deaths of his son Dodi Fayed and his girlfriend Princess Diana.