Wedding dress of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
Dress worn by Princess Alice at her wedding to Prince Louis of Hesse in 1862
The wedding dress of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom was worn during a period of court mourning for the death of her father.[1]
Princess Alice was the second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. On 1 July 1862, in the dining room of Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, she married Prince Louis of Hesse. Seven months had passed since the death of the Prince Consort and the Royal Family was still in deep mourning. The venue was chosen so that the Queen would be able to avoid inviting the usual guests of state.
From "The Royal Wedding Dresses" by Nigel Arch and Joanna Marschner (p. 58): "She wore a 'half-high dress with a deep flounce of Honiton lace, a veil of the same and a wreath of orange blossom and myrtle'."[1] It was a simple style and not embellished with a court train.[1] Queen Victoria later confided to her daughter, the Princess Royal (Vicky), that the wedding of 'poor Alice' had been "more like a funeral."
See also
Victorian era portal
References
- Nigel Arch and Joanna Marschner. The Royal Wedding Dresses. pg 58.
- ^ a b c "Royal Wedding Dresses throughout history". The Royal Family. 11 May 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
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Wedding dresses worn at British royal weddings
- Princess Charlotte of Wales (1816)
- Queen Victoria (1840)
- Victoria, Princess Royal (1858)
- Princess Alice (1862)
- Princess Alexandra of Denmark (1863)
- Princess Helena (1866)
- Princess Louise (1871)
- Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (1879)
- Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1882)
- Princess Beatrice (1885)
- Princess Louise of Wales (1889)
- Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (1891)
- Princess Victoria Mary of Teck (1893)
- Princess Maud of Wales (1896)
- Princess Alice of Albany (1904)
- Princess Margaret of Connaught (1905)
- Princess Alexandra (1913)
- Princess Patricia of Connaught (1919)
- Princess Mary (1922)
- Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1923)
- Princess Maud (1923)
- Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (1934)
- Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott (1935)
- Wallis Warfield (1937)
- Princess Elizabeth (1947)
- Princess Margaret (1960)
- Katharine Worsley (1961)
- Princess Alexandra of Kent (1963)
- Birgitte van Deurs Henriksen (1972)
- Princess Anne (1973)
- Baroness Marie Christine von Reibnitz (1978)
- Lady Diana Spencer (1981)
- Sarah Ferguson (1986)
- Anne, Princess Royal (1992)
- Sophie Rhys-Jones (1999)
- Camilla Parker Bowles (2005)
- Catherine Middleton (2011)
- Meghan Markle (2018)
- Princess Eugenie of York (2018)
- Princess Beatrice of York (2020)
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