Updated January 3, 2020, 12:06 p.m.
Is Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan’s son becoming a trendsetter? Little Archie’s latest Instagram post has triggered a mega rush on his headgear.
The New Zealand company “Make Give Live”, which works for charitable purposes, can hardly save itself from new orders. The reason: the hat, the Archie Harrison on an Instagram picture comes from “Make Give Live”.
The photo was taken in Canada, where Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan are spending their vacation with their seven month old son Archie. The Royals posted the snapshot of Harry and Archie to celebrate the turn of the year.
“Make Give Live” can hardly save itself from orders
“The orders fly in like crazy,” Claire Conza is quoted by “Stuff.co.nz”. Three years ago, together with her business partner Becky Smith, she founded “Make Give Live”: “I get several orders per second. We made thousands of dollars before 8:00 am today”. All hats that resemble Archie’s model are sold out.
Prince Harry and Meghan visited New Zealand in 2018. At “Make Give Live” the request was received whether the company wanted to give the pregnant duchess a hat as a gift.
However, there are strict rules about which gifts can actually be passed on to the Royals. Until now, no one in the company knew whether the headgear really reached the couple. Conza said in the interview that she had almost forgotten the gift.
Archie’s hat: 300 orders in just one day
“Make Give Live” has set itself the goal of fighting isolation and mental illness. It wants to bring people together to knit and crochet hats and other things. An additional donation is made for each piece sold. Conza said she could hardly understand what the enormous attention that Meghan and Harry were giving her now meant.
Conza’s co-founder Becky Smith told The Guardian that there may be delays in new requests. The knitting groups were about community and they didn’t want to put pressure on anyone to produce mountains of hats.
“Caps take time, they are made by real people. We don’t want to be under pressure, we will make it fun.” Up to the Instagram post of the Royals they would have had 45 orders a month in 2019. After publishing the picture with Archie on Instagram, they received 300 in a single day. (Hub / eee)
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