No wedding, even a royal wedding, is perfect.
Prince Charles forgot to kiss Princess Diana as husband and wife. And when his son, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, borrowed Charles’s beloved Aston Martin on his wedding day, he drove him with the emergency brake activated.
Hell, even Queen Elizabeth II’s marriage to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, had some misadventures. Read on about what led the queen to damage her wedding day tiara a few hours before the ceremony.
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Before officially placing the head of the British royal circle of relatives in 1953, the Queen married Philip in an extravagant rite at london’s famous Westminster Abbey. The Queen and Philip married on November 20, 1947, after the end of World War II.
The couple became secretly engaged in 1946 and during the time their marriage took up in late 1947, the Queen had turned 21. The bride walked down the aisle dressed in a suit created by Norman Hartnell.
By creating the garment only 3 months before the ceremony, no one can simply notice that the garment wears out when combined so quickly. Queen Elizabeth’s get dressed features floral beads, around 10,000 rock beads and a 15-foot high-level train.
According to the real tiara label, the first time women can wear one is their wedding day. For her nuptials, the queen opted for a sentimental jewel that, at the time, belonged to her mother.
He married Philip dressed in Queen Mary’s fringed tiara. Originally, the tiara began as a necklace. Only later did he change to serve as a necklace and tiara. That’s where the Queen’s near-disaster comes into play. A few hours before the ceremony, the tiara collapsed.
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According to Express, the Queen reminded Catherine of the story by visiting a royal wedding exhibition together.
“The catch, which I didn’t know existed, disappeared suddenly, ” said the Queen. “And I didn’t know it was a necklace, you’ll see … I think I broke it … We put it all together, but it alarmed me a lot.”
By British Vogue, Garrard: The Crown Jewelers for 150 Years, tells the story of tiara in detail. The bride’s mother, Queen Elizabeth the queen mother, remained quiet in the midst of the possible disaster. When the tiara collapsed, he reportedly said, “We have two hours and there are other tiaras.”
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In the end, the queen wore the tiara. Accompanied by a police escort, the jeweler went to Garrard’s workshop to make a last-minute arrangement on the tiara. The images show that the area between some of the tiara diamonds is uneven, alluding to the hasty solution. Regardless of the accident, the queen looked radiant!
After the queen wore Queen Mary’s tiara on her wedding day, it would also be the tiara selected for other royal brides. When his only daughter, Anne, princess Royal, married Mark Phillips in 1973, he borrowed the same tiara.
More than 40 years later, the royal bride would wear the same helmet. When the queen’s granddaughter, Princess Beatrice of York, married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi on July 17, 2020, she chose Queen Mary’s tiara.
We’ll have to wait and see who will be the royal bride who will wear Queen Mary’s tiara.
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