IT'S not every Glasgow girl who can say she has had a brush with royalty.
These ladies, at the city's Templeton carpet factory, by Glasgow Green, could claim to have made a clean sweep when it came to kingship.
They'd already started work on their Coronation Carpet in 1937 when its intended recipient, the would-be Edward VIII, abdicated to be with his twice-divorced lover, Wallis Simpson.
Rather than let all their hard work go to waste, the bosses decided to send the giant rug, designed by Glasgow employee JM McCreery, to his younger brother, the future King George VI.
As a special thank you, the future king invited Miss Lizzie McCulloch, a setting weaver at Templeton's with 29 years' service, to attend his Westminster Abbey coronation.
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