Waitrose Duchy Organic Waitrose Duchy Organic Waitrose Duchy Organic (formerly "Duchy Originals from Waitrose" and earlier simply "Duchy Originals") is a brand of organic food sold mainly in Waitrose stores in the United Kingdom, Ocado and small independent stores. The brand is a partnership between Waitrose and Duchy Originals Limited, a company set up by Charles, Prince of Wales, in 1990 and named after the Duchy of Cornwall estates that are held in trust by the Prince of Wales. The Duchy Originals brand was originally conceived in 1990 as an outlet for the organic food grown on the Prince of Wales Highgrove House
Waitrose Duchy Organic were "outright quackery". Subsequently the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency ruled that healing claims were misleading and required the company to amend an advertising campaign promoting two herbal medicines. In 2002 the "Deeside Water Company" began to produce some of its bottled mineral water for the "Duchy Originals" brand. In 2010 Waitrose rebranded the product as "Duchy Originals from Waitrose" and in 2016 the supermarket repackaged it as part of its "Waitrose One" premium range. Gardening tools were produced under the Duchy Originals brand by the Lancashire company "Caldwells" until it went into administration in 2009. The company Duchy