It is one of Queen Camilla's favourite brooches: the glittering platinum and diamond replica of a stick insect, which she wears when attending memorial events such as Remembrance Day and the service at Westminster Hall to mark Queen Elizabeth II's lying-in-state. It was given to her by her father.Jeweller Geoffrey Munn, part of the panel of experts on the 's , designed the brooch – one of a collection of gem-set bugs – while he was managing director of Fabergé egg specialist Wartski, which has two Royal Warrants. Camilla's bug was a replica of his sons Alexander and Edward's pet stick insect, named Sticky.'Mrs Parker Bowles had admired the glittering stick insect brooch,' he writes in his autobiography A Touch of Gold. 'A few days later her father, Major Bruce Shand, rang to see if there was anything he might give to mark her engagement to the Prince of Wales. He agreed the stick insect was a perfect choice and asked how it might be presented. I suggested, in the tradition of Fabergé, we might conceal it in an egg from Charbonnel et Walker.
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