Meghan Markle's wedding dress: Clare Waight Keller of Givenchy designs the royal bridal gown of the year

Givenchy's Clare Waight Keller
Meghan Markle's wedding dress, designed by Givenchy's Clare Waight Keller

British designer Clare Waight Keller has secured the fashion commission of the year, designing the silk cady royal wedding dress that Meghan Markle has chosen to wear as she marries Prince Harry in Windsor today.

Ms. Markle, now to be known as the Duchess of Sussex, is thought to have requested sketches and samples from several of the UK's leading design names, leaving everyone guessing what she would be wearing right up until the moment she left her hotel, Windsor's Cliveden House, this morning. 

Yet as she departed in one of the Queen's vintage Rolls Royces, we got our first glimpse of the white, bateau necked, stiff satin gown that she had ultimately picked - a clean and classic number by...

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