Queen Elizabeth II style

The beginning of summer, June, which means that in one kingdom, located on the islands, another anniversary of the reign of their monarch is celebrated. This year the date is round - 60 years. 60 years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. And in terms of the duration of her tenure on the throne, she is now second only to her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. Elizabeth II is not only the Queen of England, she is the head of the British Commonwealth of Nations, which means the queen of 15 more independent states, including the whole mainland - Australia, and a fairly large country in North America - Canada, and the islands, for example, Bahamian. Also, the Queen of Great Britain is the head of the Church of England, the supreme commander of the armed forces.

Elizabeth, the future Queen of England, was born in 1926, on April 21, in London. Born into the family of the younger brother of the heir to the throne, George and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Her uncle, King Edward VIII, will abdicate because of love. Everything is like in that song, but “no king can marry for love,” because in order to marry for love, a king must stop being a king. And Elizabeth's uncle took this step for the sake of the divorced American Wallis Simpson. This event took place in 1936, when Elizabeth was only 10 years old. Her father becomes king, and she, as the eldest daughter (Elizabeth had a younger sister, Margaret), is the heir to the throne.

The future queen received a good education at home, mainly in the humanities. She loved horses and equestrian sports since childhood. And also from childhood, unlike her more eccentric sister Margaret, she had a truly royal character. In the biography of Elizabeth II Sarah Bradford, it is mentioned that the future queen from childhood was a very serious child, who already then had a certain understanding of the responsibilities that fell on her as the heir to the throne, and a sense of duty. Since childhood, Elizabeth loved order, so she, for example, going to bed, always put slippers next to the bed, never allowing herself to scatter things in the room, as is inherent in many children. And already as a queen, she always made sure that no extra light was on in the palace, personally turning off the lights in empty rooms.

At the age of 21, Elizabeth is getting married. Her life partner will be Philip Mountbatten (he is five years older than her) - a member of the Danish and Greek royal families.

Queen Elizabeth II style

To some extent, reading notes about Queen Elizabeth II, one may get the impression that she has a boring character: she has an excessive sense of duty, and she always believes that others should first of all think about the prestige of the monarchy and their responsibilities to country, she is conservative, does not accept the fact that family problems are brought out to the public, here she certainly absolutely could not understand Princess Diana... Well, Elizabeth II has a truly royal character. And her character undoubtedly leaves an imprint on her style.

Queen Elizabeth II's conservative clothing style

The style of the English queen can be conditionally divided into two periods: the style of the young queen is a conservative and elegant style, and the style of the elderly queen, I would call it the style of the "cheerful grandmother" or even the "rainbow style", because the incredible number of changing colors in her suits and hats ... However, the English queen always loved colors.

Throughout her life, the main elements of Queen Elizabeth II's wardrobe were: dresses or suits of medium length, necessarily covering the knee, coats and raincoats in a-line cut, plus floor-length dresses for special events, as well as hats, always in tune with the suit, gloves, closed shoes , a brooch on a jacket and a string of pearls. The Queen of England has also always preferred short haircuts. Favorite colors are pink, lilac and indigo.

Queen Elizabeth II becomes after the death of her father in February 1952, and her coronation took place on June 2, 1952. At that time, namely in the 1940s and 1950s, dresses for the princess, and then the queen, were sewn by Norman Hartnell. And Elizabeth more than once appeared in public in dresses with fluffy skirts made of duchess satin or silk. Her wedding dress in ivory and decorated with silver threads is also designed by Norman Hartnell, as well as the design of the coronation dress.

From the mid-1950s and throughout the 60s, Hardy Amis sews for the Queen. It is he who brings a sense of simplicity to the queen's outfits, but this simplicity is only external, because behind it is a very complex cut. He sewed his first dresses for the Queen back in 1948, when Elizabeth asked him to create a wardrobe for a trip to Canada.

Since the 1970s, Ian Thomas, a former assistant to Norman Hartnell, and now the owner of his own salon, sews for the Queen. Its distinctive feature was the flying chiffon dresses that appeared in the queen's wardrobe. After his death and until the end of the 1980s, Maureen Rose of the Ian Thomas design house sewed for Queen Elizabeth.

From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, the Queen's wardrobe was replenished with outfits from John Anderson, because after his death his partner Karl Ludwig Reze became the Queen's court designer.

Since 2000, the youngest, in age, of Her Majesty's court designers, Stuart Parvin, a graduate of the Edinburgh College of Art, sews for Elizabeth II. In 2002, Angela Kelly becomes his assistant.

The Queen of England is 86 years old. But she still steadily fulfills all the duties assigned to her and appears in public, invariably following her style.