With just a few hours left before
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's wedding, the buzz around Meghan's wedding dress is already making rounds on the internet. The latest rumours suggest labels like Ralph & Russo and Erdem can be the designers' behind the wedding gown. While we wait for the big fashion moment, we've charted out the most beautiful wedding dresses worn by the royal family members.
The Royal Family page on Twitter, recently tweeted about the same and their tweet read, "While the details of Ms. Meghan Markle's Wedding Dress won't be revealed until Saturday, with the help of @RCT, take a look at what other Royal Brides have worn on their Wedding Day."
So, here's a look at some of the grandest
royal wedding dresses ever!
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria, who shares with Queen Mary I, the distinction of being a Queen regnant who married after her accession, dressed simply for her wedding to Prince Albert on 10 April 1840, at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace.
Her dress was of white satin with a deep flounce of Honiton lace. Pinned to the off-the-shoulder neckline was a brooch that Prince Albert had given her as a wedding present: a large sapphire surrounded by diamonds. Her earrings and necklace were also made of diamonds. On her head, instead of the expected coronet of diadem, she wore only a wreath of orange blossom and a lace veil.
Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Princess Helena married the youngest son of Queen Victoria, Prince Leopold on 27 April 1882 at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Helena's dress was sewn in Paris and was made of white satin, decorated with traditional orange blossom and myrtle and trimmed with fleur-de-lis. The dress was again topped with point d'Alençon lace. The long tulle veil was held in place by a diamond headdress and a wreath of orange flowers and myrtle.
The Queen
The rose of York, hand-embroidered in over 10,000 pearls and crystals, was a prominent feature of daughter The Queen's (then Princess Elizabeth) wedding dress in November 1947. The dress was designed by Sir Norman Hartnell, who cited Boticelli's Painting Primavera, which symbolises the coming of spring, as his inspiration for the design.
The spreading skirt of ivory Duchesse satin, below a fitted bodice with heart-shaped neckline and long tight sleeves, was embroidered with garlands of roses in raised pearls entwined with ears of wheat in crystals and pearls. Round the full hem, a border of orange blossom was appliqued with transparent tulle outlined in seed pearls and crystal.
On the white tulle veil rested a pearl and diamond tiara. The fan-shaped train, 14 feet long, in transparent ivory silk tulle, ended in a deep border of embroidered roses and wheat motifs.
Diana, Princess of Wales
Hand embroidery in tiny mother-of-pearl sequins and pearls, centring on a heart motif, created a dazzling effect on the romantic, full-skirted wedding dress of ivory silk taffeta, with lace flounces adorning neckline and sleeves, designed by David and Elizabeth Emanuel for Lady Diana Spencer's wedding to The Prince of Wales in July 1981.
The fitted and boned bodice had embroidered lace panels (the lace had belonged to Queen Mary) and waist, hem and long train were decorated with more lace sparkling with pearls and sequins. Her ivory silk tulle veil, spangled with mother-of-pearl sequins, was held by the Spencer family's diamond tiara. The pearl and sequin embroidery was repeated on the hand-made ivory silk slippers.
The Duchess of Cambridge
Sarah Burton, working for Alexander McQueen's House, designed the wedding dress for Catherine Middleton's wedding to Prince William, now The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey.
The ivory satin bodice was padded slightly at the hips and narrowed at the waist, and was inspired by the Victorian tradition of corsetry that is a particular Alexander McQueen hallmark. The bodice incorporated floral motifs cut from machine-made lace, which were then appliqued onto silk net by workers from the Royal School of Needlework, based at Hampton Court Palace. On the back were 58 buttons of gazar and organza, which fasten by means of Rouleau loops.
The skirt, underskirt trim and bridal train also incorporated lace appliqued in the same manner. The main body of the dress was made in ivory and white satin gazar, using UK fabrics which had been specially sourced by Sarah Burton, with a long, full skirt designed to echo an opening flower, with soft pleats which unfolded to the floor, forming a Victorian-style semi-bustle at the back, and finishing in a short train measuring just under three metres in length.
Photo/Inputs: www.royal.uk/wedding-dresses
