The dress was designed by Sir Norman Hartnell
Besides designing two of the most important dresses of the 20th Century – the Queen’s wedding dress and the outfit for her 1953 Coronation – he is also credited with turning London into a fashion hub to rival Paris.
Source: the mail
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Lady Sarah Chatto, who is 52 tomorrow, is one of the most low-key Royals
•Yet she is said to hold a very special place in Her Majesty’s affections
•Sarah’s lack of affectation or pomposity is in stark contrast to her mother
•The antithesis of the puffed-up minor Roya
A welcome retreat from an inquisitive world, Craigowan Lodge — a relatively modest stone building a mile from Balmoral Castle — will provide the Queen with much needed privacy and scope for reflection in the coming weeks following the celebrations that marked her 90th birthday this month.
Situated on the edge of the forest in the royal estate in Aberdeenshire, it is to this secluded seven-bedroom house that the Queen likes to retire several times a year, to read, write letters, walk and ride.
Only one guest is ever allowed to accompany the monarch to her favourite hideaway — her niece, Lady Sarah Chatto.
At just 13, her parents’ divorce was ‘terribly upsetting’ for Sarah.
‘She was devastated,’ according to one insider.
As Margaret was granted custody, the children stayed in Kensington Palace. Sarah was sent to Francis Holland School in Chelsea, a smart all-girls’ day school, followed by Bedales with her brother.
The mixed boarding school in rural Hampshire — alma mater of actors Daniel Day-Lewis and Minnie Driver — was a fashionable, arty, bohemian choice;
Margaret always preferred male company and doted on David at the expense of her daughter.
When she gave her house on Mustique island in the Caribbean — Les Jolies Eaux — to David alone on his 27th birthday (he let it out and then sold it, preferring to buy an estate in Provence) it was said that Sarah was not consulted; nor did she profit from the sale.
Her father, however, doted on her and it is from him she is said to have inherited her ‘immense charm’.
From her father she also inherited her artistic eye. A foundation course at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, followed by a printed textiles course at Middlesex Polytechnic, paved the way for her training at the Royal Academy Schools.
The son of actor Tom Chatto, and theatrical agent Ros Chatto (who was the mistress of another theatrical agent, Robin Fox), Daniel appeared in around a dozen films and TV programmes, often period dramas based on the novels of W. Somerset Maugham or Charles Dickens.
He soon gave up his acting career, however, to focus on painting, a passion shared with Sarah.
Together he and Sarah set up home in Kensington whilst still unmarried — a fact that enraged Princess Margaret — where they still live in a small, pretty, Grade II listed terrace house.
They also have a Georgian country farmhouse near Midhurst in Sussex, given to Sarah by her godfather, the late art-loving philanthropist Simon Sainsbury.
The informal country life of dogs, horses and annual sheepdog trials — which she judges — is the essence of Sarah, a royal who has never been lured by pomp and ceremony.
Indeed her wedding to Chatto in July 1994 — a few months after her brother married Serena Stanhope — was such a short, simple affair that chauffeurs were caught by surprise: the Queen, Prince Philip and Diana had to wait at the City church of St Stephen’s Walbrook after the service for their cars to come back.
While the service may have been low-key, Sarah looked every inch the blushing royal bride, in a custom-made gown by Jasper Conran which was inspired by a romantic Holbein painting.
Her veil was anchored by the Snowdon Floral Tiara, created from brooches given to Princess Margaret by her husband, and the wedding portraits show the newlyweds flanked by the Queen and the Queen Mother.
Margaret’s death also brought the Queen even closer to her only niece, in her new role as something of a surrogate mother.
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