Daily Express Sunday that Victoria, who occupied the throne from 1837 to 1901, wanted members of her household to have “complete self-respect and good behavior when in front of the general public.”The rule has endured all the way to current members of the royal family — though it’s noticeably less strictly enforced.
In 1941, then-Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret, dressed up as Cinderella to take part in a re-enactment of the fable.
Following her ascent to the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II fully stopped dressing up. Despite the archaic rule, several royals have been known to flout authority and dress up anyway.
One notable occurrence was when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle celebrated the spooky holiday with Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, at Soho House in Toronto.
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