A Shropshire-based business is celebrating the unveiling of the Royal Warrant today after working with the Royal Family for almost two decades.
Heaven Health and Beauty was started by Deborah Mitchell in 1995 when she had just £10 in her pocket.
Since then, she’s grown the business from the ground up and has been supplying skincare and treatments to Her Majesty The Queen for 19 years.
Pictures of a previous visit to the company’s headquarters by Queen Camilla adorn the walls of the proudly British company.
Speaking to GB News, founder Deborah Mitchell said she was honoured to receive the warrant.
She said: “It is a feeling that you cannot explain. I wish my mum were here to see this!
“I was very lucky before having the royal warrant when Camilla Parker-Bowles was Camilla Parker-Bowles and I didn’t tell anybody I did her treatment.
“It hit in the press and then the bee venom product, made from bees, makes the skin look younger using a botox alternative, went all over the world.
Deborah Mitchell
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“To have it for all of these products that I do, I’m just over the moon!”
The King and Queen have granted royal warrants to almost 400 companies that supply the Royal Household, with each one lasting up to five years at a time.
It also means those companies can display the Royal Arms on their products.
Director and daughter of Deborah, Ella Mitchell, makes this business a family affair and the packaging is already getting a fresh look to show their royal seal of approval.
Queen Camilla does not use her royal status to purchase multiple pots of the exclusive Gold Bee Venom Mask
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Ella told GB News how she’s proud the products are made in Britain.
She said: “The achievement itself makes you feel proud to be British.
“I think one of the core values of us is that we don’t manufacture it out of Britain, we manufacture here in Shropshire, which is obviously where my mum started.
“I think it’s an incredible achievement!”
The brand now features the royal seal
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But with the government bringing in changes for businesses they hope will grow the economy, Deborah worries about the future.
She said: “The government now aren’t for businesses, t hey are not for small businesses.
“I don’t want to be rude about it, but they basically make it very, very difficult. Completely.
“I don’t think businesses will manage to survive. I put my life and soul into this work and I love it, and if I didn’t, I wouldn’t have stuck it out.”