Iluvbertie
Imperial Majesty
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https://pagesix.com/2020/07/19/princ...ivate-wedding/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/12...e-queen-tiara/
About the dress, I think I'm in the minority here. In my opinion, I feel that Beatrice deserved better than this. As a new bride, she should've gotten a new white dress, not a patched-up altered with pieces added at the bottom to make it long, and it was not even floor length enough.
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For all we know this may very well have been Beatrice's original choice.
There were reports that she was having trouble getting a designer to make a dress for her and that she may end up having to make it herself.
She may even have said, as a girl growing up, that she liked that dress and the Queen was happy to lend it to her.
This was a Norman Hartnell dress after all ... no brides have been able to have such a gown for years and he did design the two iconic gowns of the 20th century - the Queen's wedding dress and her coronation gown, not to mention so many other dresses worn by both the Queen Mum and the Queen.
I loved the dress and thought it really looked good on Bea. It picked up the tiara and took that through the dress design as well.
It is clear that what Bea wanted was to be married and the ceremony itself was a means to an end and not the major focus. I wouldn't be surprised to find out later that this was the intended dress all along and that they only ever intended on having a small wedding ... not even filling the Chapel Royal at St James. Then ended up marrying in a larger church than originally planned of course.
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