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For her wedding to Charles, Prince of Wales (King Charles III since 2022) on 9 April 2005 at Windsor Guildhall, [1] Camilla Parker Bowles's wedding dress was a cream silk chiffon dress hemmed with vertical rows of Swiss-made appliqued woven disks, and a matching oyster silk basket weave coat. [2]
Coat of arms of David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon & Serena Armstrong-Jones, Countess of Snowdon. On 8 October 1993, she married David Armstrong-Jones (then known as Viscount Linley), [6] – the only son of Princess Margaret, a nephew of Queen Elizabeth II, and first cousin of King Charles III – at St Margaret's Church, Westminster.
The dress was an embroidered "Tudor-style" wedding dress with a high collar and "mediaeval" trumpet sleeves, [1] [5] with white silk chiffon under sleeves edged with pearls and other jewels. [6] Her veil was made of silk net embroidered with floral sprays, and her "something borrowed" was the Queen Mary Fringe tiara.
The final design of the dress was kept secret, although much speculation surrounded it. It was said the princess feared that if details were published fashion house copies would make it impossible for her to make last-minute design alterations. [11] The dress was taken to the palace a day before the wedding in a 4-foot (1.2 m) box.
The main body of the dress was made in ivory and white satin gazar, using UK fabrics which had been specially sourced by Sarah Burton, with a long, full skirt designed to echo an opening flower, with soft pleats which unfolded to the floor, forming a Victorian-style semi-bustle at the back, and finishing in a short train measuring just under ...
In contrast, the wedding dress of Catherine Middleton, for her marriage to Prince William, Diana's elder son, incorporated motifs cut from machine-made lace appliquéd to silk net. [11] The dress featured "lace flounces adorning neckline and sleeves". [8] A replica of the dress at West Edmonton Mall, in Edmonton, Canada, in 2013
Princess Alexandra of Denmark, in her wedding dress (10 March 1863) The dress was made of white silk satin (the silk was woven at Spitalfields) trimmed with orange blossoms, myrtle, puffs of tulle and Honiton lace. [3] It had a similarly trimmed 21-foot (6.4 m) silver moiré train, which was carried by eight young ladies aged 15 to 20.
The dress was designed by Irish designer John Cavanagh, chosen by Worsley on the advice of her future mother-in-law, Princess Marina. [1] Cavanagh had designed for Princess Marina previously and had trained under Edward Molyneux , the designer of her own wedding gown in 1934.