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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.
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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