It was the picture of Paddington Bear having tea with The Queen that did it for Jean Buchanan
Paddington is wearing his signature blue duffel coat and red hat. He is wearing a hat, not just inside a home (in a lady’s drawing-room) but in the presence of The Queen. Wrong on both counts. Michael Bond and Aunt Lucy in Peru would have been appalled....
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