The final word on the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee outfit | Damien Woolnough
The basic block colour and brooch approach taken at Trooping the Colour stretches back to the Service of Thanksgiving at the Silver Jubilee in 1977, but this year the Queen selected the ensemble without the final arbiter of her fashion choices, her husband Prince Philip, who died in April last year.
Ralph Heimans, ‘The Coronation Theatre: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’, 2012, oil on canvas, 250 x 342cm. Painted for the Diamond Jubilee.“What she wore was discussed before the sitting and went through the palace, where she had direct input,” Heimans says. “Everything has great significance. When I requested the Coronation Robe, the response was the Queen would have to think about it and discuss it with Prince Philip.
Kelly also designed the pale turquoise dress and coat embroidered with scattered silver flowers, with coordinating hat, worn by the Queen for the Diamond Jubilee in 2012.
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