After the waxed jacket and the quilted one, Loden season has arrived for the queen. That Elisabetta does not want to get excited about her 96th birthday can be seen in the portrait of her posted on the Instagram profile @theroyalfamily on the occasion of her birthday. Taken by Henry Dallal on behalf of Royal Windsor Horse Showphotography emanates peace and the sovereign’s desire to spend this anniversary for the second year as a widow with the great passions of her life: horses, indeed the ponies Bybeck Nightingale and Bybeck Katie, and Filippo.
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There are no brooches to remember the beloved husband, bracelets or other jewelry but a simple coat with an applied cape of the same color as the vegetation and magnolia leaves behind it. The colors of the undergrowth have always been chosen by the sovereign for her private moments, especially those spent riding, but the choice of this shade and this model may not be a coincidence since his beloved wife was a great admirer of loden. But not only.
More than the garment itself, it is precisely the color that, thanks to the ceremony held a few weeks ago at Westminster Abbey in memory of Prince Philip, we discovered to have a name, at least for the Royal Family. They called it “Edinburgh Green” that green that has the flavor of the countryside and meadows where the duke walked alone or with his wife or where he raged with his carriage.
We noticed it at the function when one after the other we saw the members of the royal family and not only – in addition to the queen, Camilla, Anna and Queen Letizia of Spain – with forest green overcoats, the official color of Filippo’s livery used for personnel and vehicles, as well as wearing it himself. In particular, loden was his coat of reference for winter appointments, above all the traditional one Christmas mass in Sandringham.
To see the change of pace and the different mood of the queen, we can go back to the photo taken by Dallal himself for his 90th birthday in 2016 (posted by @royalwindsorhorseshow last year). The family was tight, Philip healthy, Harry home and she was placed, smiling with one of his famous quilted jacketsin the middle of a field of yellow daffodils.
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Angela Kelly in the post-lockdown update of her book The Other Side Of The Coin: The Queen, The Dresser And The Wardrobe he revealed that the queen, upon returning to Windsor Castle after the prince consort’s funeral, expressed a desire to be “alone with her thoughts.” And it is news these days instead of that the sovereign managed to treat herself to a stay in Sandringham for her birthday, in Philip’s beloved estate, perhaps packing that Edinburgh green coat in his suitcase. To stay in silence once again, in the company of her memories, her close in that loden in which to still feel the warm embrace of her husband.
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