{"id":288103,"date":"2025-07-24T14:19:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288103\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:19:17","slug":"queens-fashion-show-to-mark-elizabeths-centenary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288103\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s fashion show to mark Elizabeth\u2019s centenary"},"content":{"rendered":"

An exhibition showcasing the clothes of the late Queen Elizabeth II will be hosted at Buckingham Palace next year.<\/p>\n

The 200 items will comprise the largest ever display of Elizaebth\u2019s clothing say the organisers.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style will open in the King\u2019s Gallery, Buckingham Palace in spring 2026.<\/p>\n

The items on display are held by the Royal Collection Trust, and items from the Queen\u2019s public and private lives will be on display.<\/p>\n

Highlights include Elizabeth\u2019s wedding dress, made for the then Princess Elizabeth for her marriage in November 1947 in Westminster Abbey. The silk for the gown, designed by long-time Royal favourite Norman Hartnell, was bought with ration coupons.<\/p>\n

\"Three<\/p>\n

The Queen moved with the times as these bright, relaxed 1970s dresses show. The exhibition will show decades of the best British design. Image courtesy Royal Collections Trust. <\/p>\n

The dress played a big role in establishing the young princesses public image. It toured the UK in shows after the wedding.<\/p>\n

There are also items from the late-Queen\u2019s childhood, including a bridesmaid dress, in silver lam\u00e9 and tulle, that she wore for the wedding of the Duke of Kent, her uncle. She was eight.<\/p>\n

The relaxed, bright dresses worn by the Queen during the 1970s might surprise some. Hacking jackets, head scarves and tartan skirts are more easily associated with the monarch who reigned for 70 years from 1952 to her death in 2022.<\/p>\n

The plainly political message of a dress in the colours of Pakistan for a visit show the Queen was always on duty.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the year that she would have turned 100-years-old, this exhibition will be a celebration of Queen Elizabeth\u2019s uniquely British style and her enduring fashion legacy,\u201d said the exhibition\u2019s curator, Caroline de Guitaut.<\/p>\n

The British Royal Family are valued by a large collecting community and Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s record-breaking reign and generally popular public personal make her a favourite.<\/p>\n

However, the Monarch\u2019s status as a quasi-public\/private figure mean most personal items from her life remain in Royal or official state collections.<\/p>\n

In July 2024, one of the bridesmaid\u2019s dresses from her wedding to Philip (they were married for 73 years) was auctioned by Christie\u2019s. It sold for \u00a337,800 against a \u00a350,000 top estimate.<\/p>\n

Diana Princess of Wales is the most valuable royal measured by recent sale prices. She was born outside the Royal Family and left it when she divorced Charles (then Prince of Wales) in 1996 so many more of her personal possessions have come onto the market.<\/p>\n

In 2023, Princess Diana\u2019s black velvet evening dress, by Jacques Azagury, was auctioned for \u00a3904,262 ($1.15 million). That remains the record for Diana clothes, though a major sale earlier this year saw a colourful \u201ccaring\u201d dress realise $520,000 in an LA sale.<\/p>\n

Almost any item from next year\u2019s Elizabeth II show would surely rival those prices were they ever to come to auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An exhibition showcasing the clothes of the late Queen Elizabeth II will be hosted at Buckingham Palace next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-288103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114908650886961035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}