I admire her so much and I think this dress looks great on her. I believe I remember reading that she styled it herself? Does it anyone else remember that?
The dress was made by Birgit Hallstein, and while the basic design is sketched by the designer, it's being closely monitored by HM; she may suggest a few changes/corrections/improvements. At least that's the impression you get after reading a fairly recent book on the Queen's dresses.
Did you know that HM's gala dresses are designed so that HM 'step into' them? Pulling a dress over your head is a no go with upswept hairstyles and tiaras!
Stylewise the green dress is one of her best in recent years. The colour however ........ nah.....
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viv
Maybe some of our Danish experts
can answer this for me, why did Joachim salute the soldiers inside
when they were at attention and Fred didn't, Fred walked by them,
spoke to them but didn't salute them? Also, I noticed while watching
the video, Joachim stopped and spoke to more people then Fred and
Mary, he seemed warmer then I anticipated because normally he
seems more standoffish.
Hi Rebafan,
While not an expert I happen to know that Danish naval officers
never wear caps indoors and thus never salute indoors!
In this case CP Frederik was wearing the naval gala dress with a
'sauce boat' hat, and I don't know whether the same tradition - not saluting - applies when in a 'ceremonial mode' as the gala dress would normally call for! The gala uniform is only worn by the very top brass!
IIRC we may have seen a navy styled Prince Consort wearing his 'sauce'boat' indoors, but having honorary - 'a la suite' ranks in all three services he may confuse the various traditions from time to other
.
Last but not least in Denmark the Navy enjoys taking the mickey out
of the Army and their far more formal ceremonial and rigid traditions!
Now you could argue that an occasion like a New Year's gala is not the time and place to do so, but I for one wouldn't be surprised if it were the case .
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