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Valentine's Legacy Blog

As we near Queen Anne’s 100th year anniversary in 2025, we have been collecting stories of your memories of Queen Anne through the years.With Valentines’ Day just around the corner, we thought we’d share a particularly romantic story we received from Robyn.Her grandmother, Margaret, arrived in New Zealand onboard the ‘Rangitiki’ on the morning of Christmas Eve 1930, just a few hours before she was to be married. She had been corresponding for many years with a man called Duncan who she’d met twice before in Edinburgh and was engaged to be married. Duncan took Margaret to a local tearoom...

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Queen Anne’s 99th Anniversary

Happy New Year - this is a special year for Queen Anne, as it's our 99th anniversary! While we continue to make new and delicious chocolate treats, we are also looking back to celebrate our past. Over the years, many people have shared their memories of Queen Anne and why our chocolate was so special to them. Here's one of my favorite stories about the Queen Anne shop in Dunedin: “My fondness for them (Queen Anne Chocolates) goes back to my school days in Dunedin when we had to wait at the tram terminus in High St. We would smell...

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A Queen Anne Christmas Story

Since 1925 Christmas was the busiest time for the Queen Anne Chocolate Studio in College St, Wellington as delicious chocolate treats were sent around the country to the Queen Anne shops. Christmas & Chocolate go hand in hand - to quote a customer from days gone by “a gift of Queen Anne’s was always considered the best”.  Thanks to New Zealand Woman’s Weekly (another Kiwi Icon) for this Christmas advertisement in 1937. Sadly Queen Anne’s College St chocolate factory closed down in the mid 1970’s and for many years Kiwis missed their favourite choccie treats….. then in 1998 we re-launched...

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Peppermint – The Flavour of Christmas

Peppermint and Christmas go hand in hand and Peppermint has been one of Queen Anne’s most popular flavours since we started way back in the 1920’s. This Christmas, we’ve got a delicious range of Peppermint Chocolate treats just perfect for gorgeous gifts and stocking stuffers. In the 1920s Queen Anne introduced a chewy chocolate covered mint nougat which continues to be a favourite today. Our 140g Dark Chocolate Mint Nougat box makes the perfect little gift. Long-lasting, super chewy Peppermint Nougat is smothered in dark chocolate. These chewy morsels will keep you going right into the New Year. To me, it...

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