This summer, my seven-year-old daughter made us all beaded bracelets. She wrote out our names on each, and picked colors she felt suited us—Cincinnati Bengals orange and black for her brother, purple for her dad, green and pink for me. “Never take it off,” she instructed us. And, for the most part, we didn’t. (You try showering in a beaded Bengals bracelet for a week straight though.)
And so, when I noticed that members of the royal family were also wearing seemingly-homemade bracelets, my wheels started spinning. Where did they come from, and what did they mean?
