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Cornelia James is a firm of British glovemakers, founded in 1946, and with a Royal Warrant since 1979.
Cornelia Katz was born in Vienna in 1917, and left in 1939 via Paris to London to try to get a United States visa, but met Jack James and married him six weeks later in 1940. She was a Jewish refugee and soon set up business in London making gloves, and in 1947 Norman Hartnell asked her to make the "going-away" gloves for the then Princess Elizabeth after her marriage to Prince Phillip.
Cornelia James have been Royal Warrant holders since 1979, and are now based in Lewes, Sussex.
The company is now run by her daughter, Genevieve James. Notable clients include the Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Anne, Rihanna, Taylor Swift and Madonna.
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