THE DAILY MAIL – They have become a staple feature in the Queen’s wardrobe: the bunion busting heels which she wears on Royal walkabouts.
Now MailOnline has gone behind-the-scenes at the Sole Bliss factory, in Spain’s Alicante province, to discover how Camilla’s £159 Ingrid court shoes are created.
And we have discovered that four factories and a team of 50 skilled artisans are involved in their creation, from their intricate design to their shock resistant heel tips.
‘Sole Bliss shoes are made differently from all other shoes,’ explains designer Lisa Kay. ‘Our skilled artisans obsess over every detail to create the most comfortable shoes.
‘The shoe business is incredibly technical and it’s very difficult to make a pair of quality shoes because it has to go through so many steps. In our factory alone, each pair of shoes goes through 50 pairs of hands.’
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It is now six years since Camilla, 76, began wearing Sole Bliss, which make ‘comfortable, stylish shoes for bunions and wide feet’.
She made her debut in the brand at the 2018 Royal Cornwall show, wearing their £159 Ingrid Camel leather block heels.
Since then, she has invested in more than a dozen pairs of shoes and trainers from the firm and has worn them on nearly every Royal engagement – including the week after the Queen’s death when she had a broken toe.
All of the shoes have cutting-edge technology to contour around the bunions and an ingenious device to prevent pronation – the inward rolling of the feet.
Lisa, 59, launched Sole Bliss in 2017 and designed the Ingrid, a two-inch block heel, the following year. Camilla was one of her first customers and owns more than 13 pairs.
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It comes with three different styles of heel – a leather heel, stacked wooden heel and glittery heel – Camilla has both the leather and stacked heels …