A royal visit to a bookbindery, whose fortunes have been turned around.
June 27 was a momentous day for a small bookbinding factory on an industrial estate on Canvey Island in Essex. Canvey Island is a reclaimed island in the Thames Estuary and seems a gentler, slower world, with its 1950s-style amusement arcades, funfair and cafés. It was an unlikely destination for a visit by a royal family member, but Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, was on her way to declare Charfleet Book Bindery officially open.
