A Perth mum and daughter made a parasol fit for a Queen. It changed their lives [Video]

On Friday, King Charles and Queen Camilla will touch down in Australia for a royal visit to Sydney and Canberra.

Perth entrepreneur Casey Bryden can’t help but think back to the last time the royal couple came Down Under nine years ago in 2015 and how it set her and her mother on the path of an “insane adventure”.

Back then, Bryden – who quit her job in marketing when she had her first child – was running a small hobby business with her mother, Jillian Intini, selling parasols online and at markets.

“My mum is a nurse, and she was seeing lots of women come through with skin cancer, and she wanted to change her own approach to sun care,” Bryden said.

“So she bought some old umbrellas at a swap meet, cut them up herself, went to Spotlight, bought block-out fabric …