Get Queen Elizabeth Ii Wedding Dress 1947 Pics. For her wedding dress she still required ration coupons to buy the material for her gown, designed by norman hartnell. Claire foy as queen elizabeth ii filming today for a new netflix drama detailing the queen's wedding in 1947.
The nuptials were recorded and broadcast by bbc radio to 200 million. Princess elizabeth's wedding dress when she married prince philip ~ princess elizabeth, now queen elizabeth ii married philip mountbatten, duke of edinburgh on 20 november 1947 in westminster abbey. Designed by royal couturier sir norman hartnell, the ivory dress took hartnell and his team of 350 seamstresses weeks to create.
Queen elizabeth's stunning 1947 wedding gown was truly a work of art — and the intensive labor that went into making it proves it.
Queen elizabeth's 1947 nuptials to prince philip ushered in new bridal style where no detail went undone. It's fair to say that the dress queen elizabeth ii wore for her wedding to lieutenant philip mountbatten, 70 years ago today, is truly iconic. Elizabeth ii (elizabeth alexandra mary, born 21 april 1926) is queen of the united kingdom and 15 other commonwealth realms. Elizabeth wed phillip mountbatten in 1947, only two years after the end of world war ii.