A right royal cock up

15th April 2011

For the last three months Polish furniture maker Dariusz Bergier has been working flat out creating bespoke cabinets and tables for what he believed was the wedding bash of Britain’s Prince Wills and Kate Middleton.

The Pole from Lodz said that he and his team had been working non-stop to get the pieces ready for posh furniture makers Fassbinder and English.

“We are very excited and honoured to have been asked to make this furniture for the royal wedding,” he told national media in Poland.

He added that he had been approached by the furniture company during a trade fair in Birmingham and that the pieces would end up at the posh five star London Stafford hotel in the heart o ...