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The story behind the Norman Hartnell coronation gown that was lost for 40 years
We saw Princess Beatrice wear one of her grandmother’s pristine Norman Hartnell gowns from the 1960s for her wedding in 2020. The same is true of Marilyn Monroe’s 1962 crystal-embellished gown, which was controversially worn by Kim Kardashian at this year’s Met Gala.But when Emma Telford, a leading textile conservationist, thinks about the original condition of her latest project, a Norman Hartnell gown made for one of the Queen’s ladies-in-waiting to wear for the Coronation in 1953, she says her eyes start to water.
