Royal Wedding Dresses

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Queen Victoria - 1840
The white wedding dress that started it all! Fans
of Masterpiece's Victoria are no doubt intimately
acquainted with Queen Victoria's courtship and
subsequent wedding to her cousin Prince Albert of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha on February 10, 1840. For her
wedding at St. James Palace, the young Queen
started a wedding trend that would live on for
centuries by wearing a white wedding dress.
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Mary of Teck - 1893
Mary of Teck married the future King
George V, Queen Victoria's grandson
and Queen Elizabeth's grandfather. The
over-the-top gown was
trimmed in ostrich feathers and orange blossoms.
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Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 1923
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married the Duke of
York in 1923 and became an instant bridal icon.
Her gown was considered a trend-setting piece
of fashion, with its dropped waist, pearl and
silver embellishments and very 1920s headpiece.
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Wallis Simpson - 1937
For her wedding to the Duke of Windsor at the
Château de Candé in France in 1937, Wallis
Simpson (the world's most famous divorcée), wore
a dress by designer Mainbocher. The pale blue
color was custom created for the Duchess, and
coined "Wallis blue."
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Queen Elizabeth - 1947
For her wedding to Prince Phillip, the then
Princess Elizabeth chose a duchesse-satin
long-sleeved wedding gown with floral embroidery
and crystal and pearl appliques (10,000 pearls,
to be exact). The 13-foot silk train made for
quite the entrance and no doubt set royal wedding
trends for the future.
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Queen Soraya of Iran - 1951
The Empress of Iran's magnificent
Christian Dior dress was
complete with 20,000 feathers and 6,000 diamonds,
for the
over-the-top 1951 wedding.
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Grace Kelly - 1956
Grace Kelly's wedding dress has become the stuff
of designer, bride-to-be, and fashionista
inspiration, the symbol of fairy-tale weddings,
and one of the most-often-referenced wedding
gowns in history. The high-necked, long-sleeved
dress, with a long, billowing skirt (and a
10-and-a-half-foot-long train), was designed by
Helen Rose and made from 125-year-old Brussels
lace, taffeta, and thousands of hand-sewn pearls.
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Princess Margaret- 1956
The silk organza wedding dress worn by Princess
Margaret was also designed by Norman Hartnell,
and was described by Life Magazine as "the
simplest royal wedding gown in history." The
Princess would perhaps start a trend as many
royals after her would wear a similarly minimal
long-sleeved silhouette.
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Queen Fabiola - 1960
Designed by Cristóbol Balenciaga himself, Queen
Fabiola's wedding dress, featuring a white mink
trim, was so amazing it's currently housed at the
Balenciaga Museum.
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Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands - 1966
The minimalist satin wedding dress Princess
Beatrix wore to her 1966 wedding was designed by
Bergé-Farwick of Maison Linette, and featured a
long train.
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Princess Margrethe of Denmark - 1967
The now Queen of Denmark chose a gown by Danish
designer Jørgen Bende. The front of the
square-necked and long-sleeved dress was covered
in piece of lace that has been used on several of
the royal family's wedding dresses.
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Queen Silvia of Sweden - 1976
Dior's Marc Bohan also designed Queen Silvia's
minimalistic wedding dress. Not minimalistic?
The Cameo Tiara gifted by Emperor Napoleon to
Josephine.
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Princess Caroline of Monaco- 1978
Grace Kelly's daughter, Princess Caroline of
Monaco, married Phillipe Junot in a very 1970s
wedding dress by Marc Bohan for Christian Dior.
She shunned a tiara in favor of two buns (very
Princess Leia before Princess Leia) covered in
dainty floral crowns. Trendsetter indeed.
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Queen Noor - 1978
American Lisa Halaby, the future Queen
Noor, married Jordan's King Hussein
wearing a demure high-necked Christian Dior gown.
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Princess Diana - 1978
This silk-and-taffeta creation took the breath
away of aspiring brides the world over.
Hand-embroidered with mother-of-pearl sequins and
an estimated 10,000 pearls, the gown took the
designers months to prepare. Most famously, the
25-foot long train, adorned with lace that once
belonged to Queen Mary, defined a decade of
brides in the 1980s, who all longed for that
show-stopping dramatic entrance.
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Queen Rania of Jordan - 1993
Created by Bruce Oldfield, the dress Queen Rania
of Jordan wore to marry Prince Abdullah in 1993
was beyond iconic. Covered in a gold detailed
trim, the dress featured an over coat with a
embroidered collar and a voluminous skirt.
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Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones - 1994
Much like her mother, Princess Margaret, Lady
Sarah Armstrong Jones's wedding dress by Jasper
Conran turned royal into minimal. The silk
crepe chiffon dress, with heavy satin organza
layers, was fantastically simple and timeless.
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Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece - 1995
When Marie-Chantal Marie married Prince Pavlos of
Greece she wore a Valentino gown featuring 12
different types of floral lace. It reportedly
took more than 25 seamstresses to complete the
ivory silk wedding dress.
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Sophie Rhys-Jones - 1999
To marry Queen Elizabeth's youngest son Prince
Edward at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle
(the same venue as Prince Harry and Meghan
Markle), Sophie Rhys-Jones tapped designer
Samantha Shaw to create a pearl encrusted v-neck
ivory silk organza coat dress.
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Queen Letizia of Spain - 2004
Journalist Letizia Ortiz married King Felipe of
Spain in a design by Manuel Pertegaz. The
wedding dress featured natural silks embroidered
with gold thread, and a 15-foot train.
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Camilla Parker-Bowles - 2005
For the low key wedding, Camilla Parker Bowles
chose a blue cream silk chiffon dress topped with
a matching silk coat, designed by Robinson
Valentine. She topped it off with a creation of
Philip Treacy's.
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Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden - 2010
The heir to the Swedish throne wore an
off-the-shoulder gown by Pär Engsheden for her
2010 wedding. Like Queen Silvia, Princess
Victoria topped the otherwise minimal look
(except for that incredibly long train), with the
Napoleonic-era Cameo Tiara.
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Kate Middleton - 2011
What else can we say about Kate Middleton's lace
covered Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen
wedding dress? Like Princess Diana and Grace
Kelly before her, Kate's dress spawned thousands
of copycat brides and is still influencing bridal
trends today.
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Princess Charlene of Monaco - 2011
Charlene Wittstock married Monaco's Prince Albert
in an Armani Privé which she called a
"masterpiece." Roberta Armani said, It was such
a huge responsibility that we actually made two
dresses just in case something happened to one of
them." According to the publication, the dress
took 2,500 hours to make and featured a
five-meter-long train adorned with 40,000
Swarovski crystals and 20,000 mother-of-pearl
teardrops.
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Zara Phillips - 2011
Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Zara Phillips
married Mike Tindall in a classic English a-line
wedding dress created by the Queen's couturier
Stewart Parvin.
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Stephanie de Lannoy - 2012
The Belgian duchess wore an ivory Elie
Saab wedding dress, complete with a
13-foot long train, to marry the heir to the
throne of Luxembourg.
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Princess Salwa Aga Khan - 2013
Kendra Spears became Princess Salwa Aga Khan when
she married Prince Rahim Aga Khan in 2013. For
the traditional wedding, the former model chose
an ivory and gold classic sari.
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Elizabetta Maria Rosbach von Wolkenstein -
2014
The ivory Valentino wedding dress she wore to
marry Belgium's Prince Amedeo was topped off with
a 5 meter long point d'esprit tulle veil.
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Princess Sofia of Sweden - 2015
Sofia Hellqvist said "I do" to Sweden's Prince
Carl Philip in a long-sleeved lace dress with
serious Duchess Kate vibes. Created by Ida
Sjöstedt, the gown was covered in delicate lace
made by José María Ruiz and a hand-cut then
hand-stitched train.
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