![]() The robe that the queen wore when she left Westminster Abbey to go to Buckingham Palace is made of English purple silk-velvet and is more than 6.5 meters long from the shoulder to the tip of the train. “It’s one of the most important days of her life being crowned as sovereign and I think it must bring back a lot of very happy memories,” said the exhibition’s curator Caroline de Guitaut.īritish couturier Norman Hartnell designed the white satin dress with embroidered national and Commonwealth floral emblems and attached pearls, crystals and sequins. ![]() The coronation dress and the robe that Queen Elizabeth II wore as she walked down the aisle at Westminster Abbey on Coronation Day on 2 June 1953 are the centerpieces of the showcase at the Buckingham Palace. ![]() For the first time since the queen’s coronation in 1953, the dress, robes, jewels, diamonds and uniforms worn on that day have finally been brought together again. ![]()
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