Picture No | 10579080 |
Date | 1937 |
Description | Dress for Queen Elizabeth (Queen Mother) Coronation 1937 |
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Dress worn by Queen Elizabeth, consort of King George VI at the 1937 Coronation. Designed and made by Handley-Seymour it was of English silk and in a Princess shape with a full train. The dress was richly embroidered in gold, with gold beads, sequins and diamante in a design repeating the floral emblems of the British Isles and the Empire used on the purple velvet robe and including the English oak leaf and acorn.
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Source | Illustration by Irene Segalla in The Illustrated London News, Coronation Week Double Number, 8 May 1937 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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