Matthew Storey: Last News

From a “rare toile for the 1937 coronation gown of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother” to Princess Diana’s iconic wedding dress, the Royal Style in the Making exhibit, which is currently on display at Kensington Palace, is filled with some of the most famous royal fashion. 

a new exhibition at Kensington Palace exploring the relationships between designers and royals. It became known as her “caring dress” because she knew children loved the bright, floral pattern.Despite the hand drawn pencil and ink sketch featuring a large matching hat, Diana never wore it because, she said, “you can’t cuddle a child in a hat”, Claudia Acott Williams, Kensington Palace curator, explained.She also often wore “big costume jewellery because she would pick children up and they would play with it”, she added.Matthew Storey, curator at the Historic Royal Palaces, said this “really illustrates just how carefully she considered the people she would meet when selecting outfits for her many public engagements”.Ms Acott Williams added:

Princess Margaret’s most magnificent dress; there was the mille feuille Christian Dior 21st birthday gown, the regal wedding dress created by Norman Hartnell and all those flamboyant Mustique party kaftans. But visitors to the new Royal Style in the Making exhibition, which opens at Kensington Palace next week, will find a new, relatively unknown contender for the crown.On 1st July 1964, Margaret attended a Georgian-themed ball at Mansion House, fundraising for the Friends of St.