That blue hat with yellow flowers, worn by Queen Elizabeth at the opening of Parliament in 2017, was it really a message to Europe in the days when Brexit was discussed? The sovereign, even if it were still among us, would not reveal anything even under torture but also Angela Kellyit would be to say who the headdress designed him, retired to private life with his mouth well sewn.
The writer Daisy Goodwin Instead a answer throws it there on the stage of Bath’s Theater Royal until June 14 and then around England during the summer season. Debuted on June 5 in the English city By royal peripintmentthe theatrical show designed as “An emotional journey in 15 clothes». The story revolves around the friendship between the sovereign and the Dressera character inspired by Angela Kellythe trusted wardrobe and personal assistant of the Monarch disappeared in Balmoral on 8 September 2022.
“My clothes speak for me, when I can’t do it»Elisabetta II, played by the actress Anne Reid, and is around this inspiration that revolves the pièce directed by Dominic Droscaole which sees one stage Dresserin fact, the actress Caroline Quentin, a Milliner (James Dreyfus) and a Designer (James Wilby).
Who has had the opportunity to browse The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, The Dresser and the Wardrobe. A Captivating Royal Biography, The book written by Angela Kelly and approved by the Queen in person, will find analogies but, according to Daisy Goodwin, the news stories that concerned the assistant and confidant of the sovereign have also been a stimulus to embrace this story.
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As is known, Angela Kelly was removed from Windsor: the will of Queen Elizabeth was that her friend continued to live in the home assigned to her in the estate but King Carlo was not of the same opinion. With the promise not to disseminate private affairs of the royal family in a possible new book, the crown would have purchased a cottage of 465 thousand pounds in the Peak District, an area north of England.
The author in the article she herself signed for the Times Specifies that I have never met Angela Kelly but declares that she was hit by the story. The chronicles report that when the collaborator returned to Windsor from Balmoral after the death of his majesty he even found the locks changed by the rooms to which she had always had access.
«The fate of the real favorite when the regime changes is full of dramatic possibilities. It reminded me of Munshi’s fall, the Urdu teacher of the Queen Vittoriahated by the royal family and driven out of his home in the Osborne estate at the time of his death »observes Daisy Goodwin at his theatrical debut that has long tried in real dramas as a novelist and as a screenwriter (the British TV series is due to her Victoria).
The first dress that is talked about in the show, however, belongs to a pre-Kelly era. It is the outfit sported by Elisabetta for The investiture of Carlo to Prince of Wales. It was a very suggestive ceremony that was held at Caefarnon Castle. The basic idea is that the event should keep the past together with the future of the British monarchy. The queen, notes Goodwin, had a “surprisingly modern dress”.
“The narcissus yellow dress revealed her knees for the first time to the public who watched color television” reads on Times “It was his way of reporting that he was bringing the monarchy into a new and modern direction». To complete the outfit there was a very particular hat that on the one hand seemed like a tudor aged Age on the other, a spatial helmet, “a perfect combination for a medieval -style ceremony that took place among the ancient ruins of the castle of Canetarfon, in a surprisingly modern set created by his brother -in -law, Lord Snowdon” highlights Goodwin.
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Among the clothes that come to the theater there are also what the queen wore to meet Wallis Simpson. There the author sees the intention of the sovereign to distinguish himself from his uncle’s wife, that king Edoardo VIII who abdicated in 1936 for love, that is still considered today fashion icon. “THE’ensemble He clearly says that the Queen, unlike the Duchess, does not need to appear fashionable to earn the approval of the world, “underlines Daisy Goodwin.
Angela Kelly was the first woman to draw clothes for the queen and this detail makes the character who had fame that he was rather difficult, so much so that he was called to court “makes even more interesting.Ak47»(The name with which the Kalashnikov rifle is known). Before then they were there Norman Hartnell, The couturier that created the most significant clothes in the life of the sovereignincluding that of marriage e that of the incorationaland Hardy Amies, to which the model Freddie Fox must be added, the latter two suggested the characters for the Milliner and the Designer.
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According to the writer, the value of the Personal Dresser It was that of having freed Elisabetta. Angela Kelly gave an identity to her sovereign to the sound of colored coats and combined hats but in doing so she did not neglect comfort. The portrait in which the queen appears with her hands slipped into the pockets of a dress thought by the assistant, a gesture considered as a real breakage of the protocol is legendary.
The remoled pink outfit for the 1977 silver jubilee will also come on the stage, a look considered important because it shows how nothing was left to chance. It seems that the reason why that color was baptized was sentimental: The dress was pink that Elisabetta wore for the silver jubilee of her grandfather, Giorgio V.
The show is obviously a fictional work, as they say the jokes are not true but likely. “This is not a recording of real conversations but I spent enough time with trusted people of the Queen and his family to be sure that nothing he sees is unrealistic” clarifies Daisy Goodwin in an interview with Telegraph. “I read countless biographies of Elizabeth but his choices in terms of wardrobe are almost never mentioned, except as an element of setting” and adds “yet, If you ask someone to describe it, he will always start with his clothes».
But then that blue hat with yellow flowers was a code message for the European Union or was it a simple coincidence, how did Angela Kelly wrote in her book? First of all, the context: the Brexit referendum was voted in 2016 and the result was discussed at the opening of the 2017 Parliament. It was said that the Regina Elisabetta It was in favor of the release of the United Kingdom by the European Union, an opinion manifested on the occasion of a lunch at Buckingham Palace. In short, to deny the voices considering even unfounded, the sovereign with that headdress would have shown his disappointment for Brexit.
One thing is certain: we will never know the truth. Angela Kellly reiterates among the pages of her book that “Things are not as they seem». A courtier would have said that “nothing is left to chance”, thesis married by Daisy Goodwin in By royal peripintment. Because, as aiming to demonstrate with the pièce “A hat is more than a simple piece of straw: on the queen’s head it is a skilled public relations tool».
Source: Vanity Fair
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