Inside the world of Norman Hartnell, the Queen’s favourite couturier.
Even more momentous for Hartnell? Being asked to produce Her Majesty’s coronation dress. “One October afternoon in 1952, Her Majesty the Queen desired me to make for her the dress to be worn at her Coronation,” Hartnell later wrote in his autobiography,. “I can scarcely remember what I murmured in reply. In simple conversational tones the Queen went on to express her wishes.
”Lawrence of ArabiaIn the end, Hartnell created nine versions of the dress, with the Queen ultimately settling on a design featuring floral emblems for every country then under her dominion. “After gathering all the factual material I could, I then retired to the seclusion of Windsor Forest and there spent many days making trial sketches,” Hartnell reflected decades on from the event. “My mind was teeming with heraldic and floral ideas.
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