9 years after the wedding: as Kate Middleton said the long-awaited yes to Prince William
'29.04.2020'
Source: TSN
On April 29, the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William celebrate the ninth anniversary of their wedding, which took place in 2011 at Westminster Abbey, recalls "TSN"... We suggest you once again plunge into the atmosphere of Kate and William's wedding, which was then popularly called the “wedding of the century”.
The bride Kate Middleton at the wedding had two dresses. And both were stitched by British designer, creative director of Alexander McQueen Fashion House, Sarah Burton. The ivory dress was created from satin and lace, at the insistence of Katherine there were no jewelry on the silk except flowers and shamrocks from lace. This pattern was laid out first on paper, then it was sent to the Royal School of Handicrafts in the Hampton Court Palace in Surrey, where lace was made from satin fabrics. The cost of the order amounted to 250 pounds (about 000 dollars).
The dress had a long train - 2,7 meters. But if you compare it with the train of the Princess of Wales Diana on their wedding day with Prince Charles, then he was much smaller. The trail of Diana was 7,5 meters.
After the wedding, Kate’s dress was exhibited in Buckingham Palace along with shoes from Alexander McQueen, earrings donated by Kate’s parents, and a copy of the bride’s bouquet.
The second wedding dress that Kate wore at a formal banquet was also sewn by Sarah Burton. It was more modest, but also with a sufficient lush hem and complemented by a fluffy white bolero.
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The tiara that covered Katherine's head was lent to her by Queen Elizabeth II. This is the Cartier tiara, commissioned by King George IV in 1936 for his wife, the mother of Queen Elizabeth II - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. The diadem consists of 739 diamonds and 149 diamonds. Elizabeth II diadem was presented to her 18th birthday, but she hardly wore it. And on the wedding day, Kate and Wilma passed it to the future Duchess of Cambridge.
In the wedding image, Kate had a special gift from her parents - these are diamond earrings by authors Robinson Pelam. Earrings were made in the form of stylized oak leaves and echoed the family crest of the Middleton. The cost of earrings was 17 thousand euros (about 18 dollars).
Diana's ring - the very one that Prince William presented Catherine to the engagement, was to symbolize the presence of the Princess of Wales at the wedding. Prince William presented Kate with an 18-carat blue sapphire surrounded by white diamonds while traveling to Kenya.
“The father put this family ornament on the mother's finger on the day of their engagement. I carried it in my backpack for three weeks before I proposed to Kate. I was worried that she would refuse, but everything went great: she said yes, ”the prince recalls.
Recall that after a divorce from Prince Charles, Diana returned the ring to him, and it was stored along with the royal jewels.
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After Diana's death in 1997 in a car accident, her sons were allowed to choose some of her things to remember their mother. Harry then chose Diana's engagement ring, and William - a gold Cartier Tank watch, presented to Diana by her father. But when it was time for the engagement, the brothers changed things, and so the ring ended up on Kate's finger. During the ceremony, Prince William put a Welsh gold wedding ring on his wife's finger, which she now wears along with the engagement ring.
The royal wedding cost the treasury of Great Britain £ 20 million (about $ 35 million), of which 5 million were contributed by Carol and Michael Middleton. Compared to the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, which cost $ 110 million, the wedding of Catherine and William can be called royal modest.
Almost 1900 people were invited to the royal wedding, a thousand of whom are friends and acquaintances of William and Kate. Also invited were 50 members of the royal family and 40 foreign crowned heads, among whom were King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima, Queen Margrethe II, Crown Princess Victoria and Crown Prince Daniel, Prince Felipe and his wife Letizia, as well as Queen Sofia of Spain and many, many others.
For nine years, the family of Katherine and William has replenished three times, they had three beautiful children: the eldest son - Prince George (2013), daughter - Princess Charlotte (2015) and the youngest son - Prince Louis (2018). We do not know whether Cambridge will decide to give birth to another child, following the example of Queen Elizabeth II, but in any case it would be a great idea.
