The East India Company.

Four hundred years ago, The East India Company was established by pioneering English merchant adventurers under the Royal Charter issued by Queen Elizabeth I.

They raced the waves in their great ships to bring unimaginable riches and mouth-watering treasures back home from distant lands.

Spices and sugar, teas and coffee, sensational tastes and indulgent pleasures that captivated
Kings and fashionable societies alike.