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March 3rd, 2008 by Just Glass Oline Staff

Loved by millions for its inherent elegance and beauty, Royal Albert is the world’s most popular bone china, signifying grace and the most perfect of the English Floral design style.

Dating a far back in its association with important people and royalty as the late 1800’s Royal Albert owes a great deal of its success to the Old Country Roses Pattern, the world’s most popular china pattern.

In 1896 Thomas Wild took over the Albert Works in Longton, Stoke on Trent; a factory that was given the title a year earlier to commemorate the birth of a new prince, Prince Albert.

In 1897, Thomas Wild and Co. the new china organization diligently worked to produce a range of pieces to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, which was the beginning of an association with the royal houses that remains in place to this very day, and is what led the company to be called by their new name, Royal Albert.

Royal Albert’s design ‘Old Country Roses’ has become the world’s bestselling bone china tableware pattern, and since its introduction in the year 1962 has sold more than 150 million pieces of china.

It was due to the determined work of Thomas Wild and his descendents that Royal Albert achieved its worldwide fame.

Today its success is based on its distinctively and completely English styling and the offering of some of the most romantic and elegant china that can be found on the market today.