Royal Gowns

Princess Margaret wore a dress created by Norman Hartnell.at her wedding to Anthony Armstrong Jones in 1960. 

The Duchess of Albany married Prince Leopold I (Queen Victoria's youngest son) in 1905. The bride wore a crown of flowers and jewels and the dress was enriched with royal laces and embroidery.

 Marie- Chantal and Prince Pavlos of Greece, July, 1st 1995. The bride is wearing Valentino silk gown with applied roses and an embroidered corset. The Chantily lace veil is 4,5 m long and embroidered with butterflies. The diamond tiara was borrowed from Queen Mary Ann, the mother of the groom.

Grace Kelly and her prince, Rainier al III-lea - 1956. The corset was covered in fitted lace that also covered her arms and neck. Helen Rose, designer for MGM, created this dress using 23 m of silk taffeta, 90 m of tulle and 274 m of Valenciennes lace.

The Queen Mother at her wedding in 1923 wore a dress made from chiffon moiré, with an extremely simple design. The dress was created by Madame Handley Seymour, one of the most visionary designers of the day. The dress had two trains: one was made from tulle and attached to the shoulders and the other was attached at the waist.


I've presented here a few of the royal wedding dresses that caught my eye. All are special in their own way, although we seem to be more prudent about the amount of skin a royal bride shows nowadays than we were in the 19th century. I agree they should not be over-revealing but I expected a little more edge from UK's newest princess. Her dress seems like a combination between Princess Margaret's and Grace Kelly's. But her veil was truly breathtaking!

The Royal Wedding Gown

I can't help it! :-)

I don't know what I expected but I think I wanted a little more. From what I gather, the details of the dress are extraordinary, but from afar the dress is not all that it could be. However, as others have said (others that continue to stubbernly compare Princess Kate to Lady Di) Kate's dress will stand the test of time as an elegant, pleasant dress while lady Di's dress seems a statement of the '80s, only beautiful at that time (if you ask me, not even then, but such was fashion then).

I liked the corset of the dress, a special cut, very feminine, very appropriate for the occasion and for the bride's body... I liked the veil and the tiara.

Kate's 70's look is part of her personal charm and the dress didn't express that. It was retro, that's true but not from the same period. There's something else a bride should never forget...it's not the dress that should be noticed at a wedding, but the bride in the dress! It has to appear to everybody that they were meant to be together (the bride and her dress), that the dress was made for her. I honestly saw Kate in something else, but we have to consider etiquette and the fact that it was not supposed to be too revealing.

Soon I'll post a few other royal dresses that I like and I will make a kind of top and you're welcome to comment on.