There is a royal award for a 92-year-old business woman and founder of a Peterborough skin care products company in today’s (June 14) King’s Birthday Honours List. Evelyn Taylor, the founder of Eve Taylor (London), which has its head office and factory at the Mallard Business Centre, in Bretton, has been awarded a Dame Commander of the British Empire for her services to business. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Peterborough Telegraph, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you.
It follows her Order of the British Empire honour that she received for services to aromatherapy and the skin care profession in 2008. Speaking from her home in Werrington , Eve, who still gets into the office at 7.30am each weekday, said she was ‘thrilled’ to be honoured by King Charles.
She said: “I am so thrilled I can’t stop shaking. I’m overwhelmed. “But it is thanks to all my staff.
I still have staff who have been with me for 25 or 26 years. "My staff are the people who have got me to where I am today. “And I am going to make sure they get an award from me.
” Eve said: “I’m still working because I just love what I do – it motivates me to get up in the morning and go to the office. "I am still involved with blending and oils. I’ve still got a nose that can smell out a blend that is good or not’” Eve, who has five sons, three of whom are involved in the business, said: “I am still chairman of the company.
"I still control the bank.