Princess Margaret Norman Hartnell

There are many designers associated with the royal family and norman hartnell is a key figure.

Princess margaret norman hartnell. The wedding dress was designed by norman hartnell the favoured couturier of the royals and was made from silk organza. The original royal style icon it is unsurprising that princess margarets choice of wedding dress has gone down in the annals of fashion history inspiring brides today with its simplicity and elegance. At her wedding the poltimore tiara emphasized hrhs royalty sitting dramatically as it did on the head of a very petite princess who also purposely chose a quite simple norman hartnell gown. When just three months before the wedding norman hartnell was announced as the designer of princess elizabeths gown any fears of a grim ration choked wedding were allayed.

Elegantly simple and thoroughly modern then and now the queens younger sister knew exactly what worked for her when she commissioned couturier norman hartnell to design her bridal gown. Hartnell specifically kept the adornments of the dress such as the crystal embellishments and beading to a minimum in order to suit margaret s petite frame. Created by norman hartnell who designed queen elizabeths wedding gown 13 years earlier the silk organza gown was rumored to have been fitted to showcase princess margarets figurehence the. Princess margaret in her hartnell gown which did not feature his signature embellishment and looking at hartnells stunning body of work its clear why princess beatrice fell in love with her.

Margarets marriage to antony armstrong jones on may 6th 1960. The british designer regularly dressed the queen princess margaret and the queen mother throughout. The skirt comprised some 30 metres of fabric. Hartnell first gained the favor of the queen mother.

While it is different in style to both the queen and princess margarets royal wedding dresses there are a few key signatures that identify it as a norman hartnell design including the intricate.