Queen elizabeth 2 coronation dress on display
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Coronation gown of Elizabeth II
Gown worn by Elizabeth II at her coronation in
Queen Elizabeth II's coronation took place on 2 June Ordered in October , her gown took eight months of research, design, workmanship, and intricate embroidery to complete. It featured the floral emblems of the countries of the United Kingdom and those of the other states within the Commonwealth of Nations, including the English Tudor rose, Scots thistle, Welshleek, Irish shamrock, Canadian maple leaf, Australian wattle, New Zealand silver fern, South African protea, Indian lotus flower for India, the Lotus flower of Ceylon, and Pakistan's wheat, cotton, and jute.[1][2]
The gown, like Elizabeth's wedding dress and other notable royal dresses of this period, was designed by Norman Hartnell.[3][4] It was Elizabeth's wish that the coronation dress should be made of satin, like her wedding dress, with accentuation of regal elegance, but with no undue emphasis on s
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On display in the museum over the Platinum Jubilee weekend is this framed sample of the material used to make Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation dress.
The coronation was held on 2 June at Westminster Abbey, watched by 3 million spectators and a further 20 million following the event at home.
The sample was a gift from Norman Hartnell, the designer of the dress, to Miss Grizelle Fowler, as she had worked for him. Miss Fowler bequeathed the sample to the museum in
The coronation dress was ordered in October and it took 8 months of research, design and workmanship to create it. Hartnell put forward 8 different designs and Elizabeth chose her favourite.
It then took at least 3 dressmakers, 6 embroiderers and the Royal School of Needlework to create the detailed embroidery on the satin The embroidery features the national flowers and plants of Britain & the Commonwealth countries.
These include the English Tudor rose, the Scottish thistle, the Welsh leek, the Irish shamrock, the
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Sir Norman Hartnell ( – 79) was the star of London couture during the interwar years, gaining international fame as dressmaker to the British royal family. This abridged extrakt from his autobiography describes the most momentous kommission of his career: the Coronation dress of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
One October afternoon in , Her Majesty the Queen desired me to man for her the dress to be worn at her Coronation.
I can scarcely remember what I murmured in reply. In simple conversational tones the Queen went on to något som utförs snabbt exempelvis expressleverans her wishes. Her Majesty required that the dress should conform in line to that of her wedding dress and that the ämne should be white satin. It was almost exactly five years earlier that I had put the final touches to the dress which, as Princess Elizabeth, she had worn on the day of her wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh.
When my first exhilaration was over, I settled down to study exactly what history and tradition meant bygd a 'Coronatio