Royal Style - I’m not qualified but you can’t cut me off when there’s a wedding dress to look at...

[AppleKatie]

If someone else has already started one of these please direct me over. I’m not qualified to be the OP of these wonderful threads... but I typed the below and I will be heard

Neither the dress nor the tiara are my personal favourites.

But bloody hell it’s got class.

Granny’s dress and tiara turn it from ‘shameful secret wedding because daddy can’t be seen in public anymore’ to ‘intimate family occasion fully supported and loved by Grandmother, The Queen’. I think it’s a huge showing of support from the Queen to her granddaughter and that’s lovely.

Gabriella Kingston's was pale pink as well.

When Princess Alexandra of Denmark married the Prince of Wales in 1863, she wore the most fabulous dress, sewn with layer upon layer of flowers. She was only nineteen, and I dare say having Victoria as her MIL soon sucked her teenage exuberance away.
She was the first Royal bride to be photographed, and in the official photo, Victoria is shown dressed in black, gazing at a bust of the dead Albert.

If you are wondering how to fill the longer evenings, now that winter is approaching, FutureLearn are running their History of Royal Fashion course again, starting on Monday 5th October for five weeks.

I did the course about a year ago, and it was such fun, packed with information, and very well presented. There are lots of interesting items shown, such as some of the clothes worn by King Charles at his execution.

It really is a fascinating course if you are interested in fashion, it is free and you complete it at your own pace.

Ada, well that's a rather interesting photo you could say.

Ooh thanks for that Ada I think I will do it, looks very interesting.

Yes @TracyBeakerSoYeah, that's the very photo. You just know that Alexandra is thinking Oh.My.God!

Absolutely! That looks like a tiny eye roll in the making.
Whilst Bertie (as the future Edward VII was known as) looks like he's thinking 'Yep, this is my Mother'

A moment before, Bertie had given Alexandra a side eye!

Imagine your mother in law posing in your wedding pictures looking morosely at a bust of her late husband 🙄

Just caught up.

That is the MIL from hell photo, what on earth made Victoria think that was appropriate? Fascinating psychology of it.

Max’s orange is bright but I think the black Mask is what makes it look so so bizarre I think. A lighter colour would have made her whole head look less incongruous.

Flora's dress looks very similar to the iconic lady Sarah Chatto's.
The Victoria dominated wedding photo is quite something.

I don't know how to link video but if you look on the Kensington royal IG, there's a video with George, Charlotte and Louis asking him a question each! It's very sweet.

I love Louis' little jumper!

That is a sweet video! What lovely children. It's so nice to involve them. Louis is such a cute little chap.

Ah that is so sweet. Thanks frugal for bringing it to our attention.
I can quite imagine Charlotte hiding spiders in her brothers bed!
I think she's the boss in that trio

That's the first time I've seen George resemble a young William. Louis looks very similar to my little boy.

Awww. Very cute video. And a very wise choice for their first public words. I think they're being sheltered, in a good way.

Oh that video is gorgeous! Very sweet children. 🙂

Fascinating photo of Queen Victoria at her son's wedding. I really must read more about her. As a pp says the psychology must be fascinating. There's her obsession with Albert but also the fact that she becomes queen pretty young if I remember and then (like Elizabeth II) she had to balance the expectation that the Queen produces heir but, unlike Queens in the sense of the monarch's spouse, she also had to be the monarch.

I suspect she was MIL from hell and, given the extent to which her children married across Europe, imagine the family get togethers... I was looking through a book of colourised historical photos a while back and there was image of male European monarchs just before WW1 in all their regalia etc and it was quite sobering a) how many were related and b) how many were about to be deposed or killed.

Louis makes me think of a very young Karen in Outnumbered.
He's so sweet.
And yes George is a mini William with Grandpa Middleton's hair.

Yes it is quite sobering terry & it must have been extremely difficult as some members of the family groups were on opposite sides during WW1.
Take the Hesse family (QV's grandchildren) Alix & Ella as the Tsarina & the Grand Duchess in Russia & Victoria the Marchioness of Milford Haven in England. Yet their other siblings Irene who was Princess Henry of Prussia & Ernest the Duke of Hesse were in Germany.
I think QV & her eldest Victoria Empress of Germany would have both gone mad with despair if they both had been alive during WW1
However if those two had still been alive there would have not been a war in 1914. They were both strong women & would have made sure that Kaiser Wilhem II would not have been swayed by his politicians & generals to give Austria-Hungary 'the blank cheque'

Can you guess what period I studied in A Level History

I wish colour photography had been more common/easier/less expensive in the very early 20th century & been in available in the 19th century (although there has been a handful of colour photos in the late 1890's)
I would have loved to have seen all the Victorian & Edwardian royal gowns in colour.
I think I would have enjoyed being a rich Victorian.

Ah, I just came on to talk about the video and you’ve all beat me to it! It’s adorable though isn’t it 🙂

@TracyBeakerSoYeah

I wish colour photography had been more common/easier/less expensive in the very early 20th century & been in available in the 19th century (although there has been a handful of colour photos in the late 1890's) I would have loved to have seen all the Victorian & Edwardian royal gowns in colour. I think I would have enjoyed being a rich Victorian.

Yes, I would Iove to see the dresses in colour! Though maybe not the arsenic ones... I think colour also makes a huge difference in how 'real' people seem to us, they suddenly look like someone you might run into in the street. I am sure there is some science there on perception or something.

This is the 9 kings photos I was thinking of - it was actually at Edward VII funeral. marinamaral.com/portfolio/the-nine-kings/

Yes it is quite sobering terry & it must have been extremely difficult as some members of the family groups were on opposite sides during WW1.

And in WW II. Prince Philip and his sisters. Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone) and her brother.