a Norman Hartnell gown originally made for the Queen in the late 1950s or early 1960s, but altered for Beatrice by Stewart Parvin (one of HM’s go-to designers) and Angela Kelly (the Queen’s longtime dresser).The heritage headpiece has a storied history.
It was originally commissioned by Queen Mary of Teck, Queen Consort to King George V, in 1919 from Garrard & Co, reusing diamonds from a tiara that had been given to her as a wedding present by Queen Victoria.Queen Mary gifted the resulting creation to her daughter-in-law, then Queen Elizabeth (who later became known as the Queen Mother), who loaned it to her own daughter, our now Queen, for her marriage to Prince Philip.That moment in 1947 has made the Queen Mary Fringe tiara one of the.
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