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For her wedding dress, Elizabeth still required ration coupons to buy the material for her gown, designed by Norman Hartnell. [12] [13] The dress was "a duchesse satin bridal gown with motifs of star lilies and orange blossoms." [13] Elizabeth's wedding shoes were made out of satin and were trimmed with silver and seed pearl. [11]
The wedding dress of Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth II), was worn at her wedding to Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh on 20 November 1947 in Westminster Abbey. Given the rationing of clothing at the time, she still had to purchase the material using ration coupons. [1] The dress was designed by Norman Hartnell. [2]
Elizabeth's wedding dress was made from deep ivory chiffon moire, embroidered with pearls and a silver thread. [16] It was intended to match the traditional Flanders lace provided for the train by Queen Mary. [16] Elizabeth's dress, which was in the fashion of the early 1920s, was designed by Madame Handley-Seymour, dressmaker to Queen Mary. [17]
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The couple's 50th anniversary is featured in the final episodes of The Crown.
Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughter Princess Beatrice wore Norman Hartnell to her own 2020 wedding to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, and, though it wasn’t her grandmother’s wedding dress, it was a hand ...
Historia/Shutterstock In the wake of Queen Elizabeth II‘s death, royal enthusiasts are looking back on her life — including a moving story about her wedding dress. Queen Elizabeth II’s ...
In 1923 Handley-Seymour, at that time dressmaker to Queen Mary, [12] was commissioned to make the bridal gown of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon for her 26 April wedding to the Duke of York. The ivory chiffon moire dress was embroidered with pearls and silver thread, with a train of Flanders lace , and a girdle of silver leaves and green tulle fastened ...