Striped Guardsman Red, Royal Blue & Pearl White Eco Dinner Candles, 4 per pack

Colourful candles with a twist. Our eco, fair trade dinner candles are striped in bold bands of British Colour Guardsman Red, Royal Blue & Pearl White. Royal Blue This colour name has been used from the sixteenth century in connection with Smalt (Cobalt) and Prussian Blue.The more modern colour under this name, which was first used in the latter part of the 19th C, was probably derived from one of these earlier colours, but has deviated so much from Smalt that it is the general representation of samples submitted by textile and other colour using industries that is depicted here as Royal Blue. Guardsman Red Matching the tunics of the Queens' Guardsman.