Time passes, but not the fuss (of comments) that still rises in the face of the most Hamletic of royal doubts: was Kate Middleton’s wedding dress or Meghan Markle’s more beautiful? Whatever the answer, 2023 will take care of silencing us completely with a very important anniversary: The Queen Mother’s wedding dress is about to turn 100.
Photographs in hand, the white dress that Princess Angela of Liechtenstein wore at the dawn of the new millennium unlocks a memory. Isn’t it identical to the one that Prince Harry’s wife sported for her wedding in Windsor in 2018?!
We have seen many exceptions to the rule in the royal family (recently), starting with the princess Eugenie Of York who for her wedding to James Brooksbank in 2018 deliberately left the scar on her back visible, artfully framed by the dress of the Peter Pilotto fashion house. Later, she of that gesture (she was operated on for scoliosis as a child) she also told her the meaning of her, proving to be incredibly courageous and self-confident. Exactly two years later, then there was her sister Beatrice who – anything but pomp – joined her beloved Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at her altar with a historic white dress that her grandmother (Queen) Elisabetta had worn in the sixties. Revised with some adjustments for her, of courseand completing the bridal look with a veil and tiara.
In short, to the princely opulence of Lady Diana (there were ten thousand of pearls and sequins, instead over two hundred were the meters of tulle for the train) or to the immaculate royalty of Kate Middleton, the Windsors also include examples of modesty: the same Queen Elizabeth – still a princess at her wedding to Philip on November 20, 1947 – opted for a dress that was not too sumptuous, as her wedding was held at the dawn of the Second World War. Different however was the case of the wedding dress of his mother, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
It was the April 23, 1923 and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon certainly did not think that one day she would become queen by marrying the Duke of York: Edward VIII’s abdication of the throne (to marry the divorcee Wallis Simpson), would soon call her husband – in 1936 – to become King George VI. Hers was going to be the wedding dress of a future queen, and she didn’t even know it.
An additional detail is that the Queen Mother’s wedding dress broke – first – the protocol. It was the 1920s, the typical silhouettes were going crazy flapper girl claimed by Coco Chanel in the name of greater freedom (of movement and beyond): could Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon not be a child of her time? For the first time in the royal family, the waistline of a wedding dress was lowered.
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It was made by the royal seamstress Madame Handley Seymour who, as told by an ancient archive piece of The Guardian, he also made a large set of clothes for the future queen. Not only was it a very modern dress, but it also presented an extraordinary revolution: Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon wanted not one but two trains. One starting from the shoulder and the other from the hips. A literally century-old masterpiece.
Source: Vanity Fair
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