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Agence France-Presse

Chocolate firm Cadbury said on Monday it was “disappointed” after losing its royal warrant for the first time in 170 years following King Charles’ first review of the coveted list since becoming monarch.
Campaign group B4Ukraine earlier this year urged the king to remove companies “still operating in Russia” following its invasion of Ukraine.
It singled out Mondelez International which owns Cadbury as well as Bacardi, Nestle and Unilever, the maker of the UK’s love-it-or-hate-it breakfast spread, Marmite.
Cadbury was among 100 firms including Unilever missing from a new list of 386 royal warrant holders, although Bacardi and Nestle retained their warrants.
Not all those absent from the latest list, published by the Royal Warrant Holders Association, were necessarily actively removed, and instead may have ceased trading or not applied.
The review of royal warrants follows Charles’ accession to the throne in September 2022 on the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth.
Warrant holders receive “the right to display the appropriate royal arms on their product, packaging, stationery, advertising, premises and vehicles”.
It is regarded as a guarantee of quality and can sway some customers to choose a particular firm’s goods or services.

Cadbury, which was first awarded a royal warrant by Queen Victoria in 1854, was reportedly a favourite of the late queen.
A spokesperson for Mondelez said Cadbury had been “a part of British life for generations” and remained the “nation’s favourite chocolate”.
“Whilst we are disappointed to be one of hundreds of other businesses and brands in the UK to not have a new warrant awarded, we are proud to have previously held one, and we fully respect the decision,” the spokesperson added.
A Unilever spokesperson said it was proud of the long royal association of its brands, but that the granting of warrants was “a matter for the royal household”.
Buckingham Palace does not give reasons or comment on decisions about royal warrants.
Meanwhile, Buckingham Palace said on Monday that Charles will make his annual Christmas speech from a former hospital chapel, in a break from tradition as the British monarch undergoes cancer treatment,
The address comes at the end of a year in which the royal family faced multiple medical setbacks, starting with Charles, 76, being diagnosed with an undisclosed type of cancer in February.
The speech, which was pre-recorded at the Fitzrovia Chapel in central London, will be the first time the address to the nation is made from outside a royal residence since 2006.

The Byzantine-inspired chapel used to be part of Middlesex Hospital and has served as “a place of solace, prayer and rest for staff and patients” for nearly a 100 years, according to a Buckingham Palace statement.
Although the king has slowly returned to public duties, he is still undergoing cancer treatment, which is expected to continue into 2025.
His daughter-in-law Kate Middleton was also diagnosed with cancer this year, and announced in September she had completed chemotherapy.
The last time the annual broadcast was made outside a royal residence was in 2006, when Queen Elizabeth made her speech from Southwark Cathedral.
Charles evoked environmentalism and called for world peace in his 2023 Christmas address from Buckingham Palace.
This year’s message was recorded earlier in December from the ornate Grade II listed chapel which boasts more than 500 stars in its gold-leaf ceiling and some 40 different types of marble.
The king’s speech will be broadcast by Sky News at 3pm local time on Christmas Day.


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Campaign group B4Ukraine had urged king to remove companies ‘still operating in Russia’, singling out Cadbury’s owner Mondelez International


Campaign group B4Ukraine had urged king to remove companies ‘still operating in Russia’, singling out Cadbury’s owner Mondelez International.
