I noticed that then royal brides used to wear, out of à tiara, also à round crown in top of their head. Queen Ingrid did so and also Victoria Luisa and her daughter Princess Frederica while marrying CP Pavlos of Greece.
This habit of Crown disappear later, does anyone know the real meaning and why it has disappeared ?
Thanks
I don't know about the tradition of bridal crowns for royal brides in general, but I'm not sure if the reason for the myrtle crown that the then Swedish Princess Ingrid wore at her wedding was the same as for those worn by Princesses Victoria Luisa and Frederica.
There has been a tradition in Sweden, and the other Scandinavian countries, since the 16th century, that the bride borrowed a crown from the parish on her wedding day (see Princess Margaretha of Sweden in 1964). I would guess that most parish churches in Sweden has, or has had, a
brudkrona (bride crown) to lend to brides. In the end of the 19th century myrtle crowns became popular, and that is most likely why Princess Ingrid chose one for her wedding. In the 1960s and1970s it became popular with bridal crowns made of new materials, such as crocheted crowns, lace crowns, straw crowns, and even glass crowns. There are still lots of patterns online for crocheted bridal crowns.
From the beginning (16th century) and often into the beginning of the 20th century it was only a virgin bride who was allowed to borrow the bridal crown from the church, and if it was found out she hadn't been a virgin, the couple had to pay a fine to the church so that the crown could be 'purified' again.
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