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.
John’s. Naturally, the fashion-loving Princess pulled out all the stops for the evening, commissioning an extravagant gown which, according to Matthew Storey, curator at Historic Royal Palaces ‘was more eighteenth century than the eighteenth century itself’.
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