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Princess Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon
The thing about princesses is that they are rarely even nearly so beautiful as Disney and popular imagination would lead one to believe. It’s funny isn’t it? You hear the word ‘princess’ and the image...
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Marie Antoinette meets Madame du Barry for the first time
15th of May, 1770, La Muette.There was a private dinner party tonight in the beautiful pale green and gold dining room in La Muette. It was for the royal family only and after being met at the door by...
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Marie Antoinette arrives at Versailles, 16th May 1770
Wednesday, 16th May 1770, Versailles.I am here! I am finally here! I feel almost giddy with excitement and can’t stop looking about myself in awe, pinching myself as I take in the expanse of shiny...
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Dressing the Stars at Bath Fashion Museum
We have a bit of a cinematic theme here at Madame Guillotine lately, don’t we? Today Felix and I headed off on a train to Bath for the opening day of the new exhibition Dressing the Stars at the...
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Marie Antoinette’s wedding dress
‘It didn’t take us long to reach the royal chapel and there was a small awkward pause as my ladies came forward to tweak my full skirts and, clicking their tongues disapprovingly against their teeth,...
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Georgiana’s wedding, 7th June 1774
The Duchess of Devonshire, Gainsborough, 1787. Photo: Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth.On this day in 1774, her seventeenth birthday, the noted society beauty Lady Georgiana Spencer married the fifth...
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Dress of the Week – a Duchess’ wedding dress
I’ve had this picture on my dashboard for almost a week now so that I can admire its absolute perfection but wasn’t sure how to share it with all of you until I remembered my now apparently defunct but...
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Wedding Dresses 1775-2014 at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Wedding dress, Gladman & Womack (London), 1885. Photo: Victoria and Albert Museum, London.As I’ve said before, I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the Victoria and Albert Museum BUT I...
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Looking forward to 2014
Christ Church, Spitalfields. Photo: Melanie Clegg.Following on from yesterday’s highlights of 2013, I thought it’d be fun or interesting or whatever to have a look at the ten things that I am most...
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Wedding Dresses 1775-2014 exhibition at the V&A
‘This exhibition will trace the development of the fashionable white wedding dress and its treatment by key fashion designers such as Charles Frederick Worth, Norman Hartnell, Charles James, John...
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