A TAVISTOCK gift company has been given the royal stamp of approval after receiving a special order for a little princess.

Pixon Lane-based From Lucy, which creates personalised, illustrated gifts and run by husband and wife team Lucy Tapper and Steve Wilson, received an order through its website for its popular ‘Day You Were Born’ print for Princess Charlotte, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

The print includes the child’s place, date and time of birth, weight, time of sunrise and sunset on that day, birthstone and star sign among other things.

Lucy said she was very excited to have made a print for such a high profile child: ‘We received an order through the website from the security team at Buckingham Palace. It was bought as a gift from the security team for Princess Charlotte. Two years earlier we had done one for George, which we presumed was either a gift or was just something for a super fan — we weren’t sure, but since this order came through, we think it might have been for Prince George.

‘It’s very exciting to know that our print will be hanging on Princess Charlotte’s nursery wall. We can’t quite say it’s by royal appointment but it’s pretty close. From the depths of Devon, you don’t expect to get orders like that.’

Lucy said that the print has been made and sent and should have reached its new home by now.

Lucy started creating her illustrations and ideas in her head while watching her young children play in their greenhouse.

She set out with no financial backing, no contacts and a sketchbook full of ideas and soon developed into a booming business of personalised illustrated gifts.

Lucy and Steve develop all the products between them as well as creating and writing children’s books together, for which they have been finalists in a number of national awards.

Princess Charlotte is not the only high-profile name to have received one of Lucy and Steve’s gifts; they can count Holly Willoughby, Fearne Cotton, Emma Willis and Coleen Rooney among their clientele.