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Auction: 23111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 1274

The Royal Warrant Holders Association Medal awarded to Mr C. Jaschke, who was responsible for the shape of King Edward VII's beard, looking after it almost daily before his death in 1910

Royal Warrant Holder's Association Medal, G.V.R. (Charles Jaschke.), mounted as worn, good very fine

Charles Jaschke came to Britain from Czechoslovakia in the early 1880s with no more than £2 to his name. Jaschke's success with clients saw him walking to the Derby in 1883 to watching the same event from the Royal enclosure the following year.

He was on Lord and Lady Dudley's yacht on the Riviera in 1901 when he was first called to King Edward's side and Jaschke remained there until the King's death in 1910. Each morning at 0900hrs Jashke would be at Buckingham Palace to trim King Edward's beard, and on Sundays he would be at Sandringham. The beard was reputed to be the envy of Europe. King Edward once complimented the barber with the comment:

'What I like about you Charles is you do not talk a lot. You are seen but not heard.'

Jaschke accompanied George V (then Prince of Wales) on his 1901 Empire Tour and again to India for the Durbar in 1911-12. He was hairdresser to over half the titled and Royal Households of Europe and clients included the King of Spain and the Duke of York. The back part of his shop on Regent Street became known as the 'House of Lords' on account of the standing of the clients in attendance.
He died in 1925 after almost 40 years of trimming the finest beards in the land.

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