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| Queen's diamond jubilee brings out the royal colours | Queen's diamond jubilee brings out the royal colours |
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| The Duchess of Cambridge provided the red, the Queen chose white and the blue came courtesy of the sashes of Princes Charles and William. As it turned out, the Spirit of Chartwell chic followed the same union flag colour scheme as any other jubilee party. | The Duchess of Cambridge provided the red, the Queen chose white and the blue came courtesy of the sashes of Princes Charles and William. As it turned out, the Spirit of Chartwell chic followed the same union flag colour scheme as any other jubilee party. |
| The duchess was the first to show her hand in the flotilla fashion stakes. She wore a crimson Alexander McQueen long-sleeved dress by Sarah Burton, the designer of her wedding dress. A red hat designed by Sylvia Fletcher for James Lock and a pair of her by now trademark beige-pink heels completed the look, along with a silver dolphin brooch given to her by Prince William. | The duchess was the first to show her hand in the flotilla fashion stakes. She wore a crimson Alexander McQueen long-sleeved dress by Sarah Burton, the designer of her wedding dress. A red hat designed by Sylvia Fletcher for James Lock and a pair of her by now trademark beige-pink heels completed the look, along with a silver dolphin brooch given to her by Prince William. |
| She wasn't the first to wear this demi-peplum dress with pleated skirt: versions have been worn by the X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos and US reality TV star Kim Kardashian to other distinctly unroyal occasions. Nor was she alone in her choice of colour: the Chelsea pensioners, the Royal Watermen and the Spirit of Chartwell itself were in on the pillar-box red trend. | She wasn't the first to wear this demi-peplum dress with pleated skirt: versions have been worn by the X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos and US reality TV star Kim Kardashian to other distinctly unroyal occasions. Nor was she alone in her choice of colour: the Chelsea pensioners, the Royal Watermen and the Spirit of Chartwell itself were in on the pillar-box red trend. |
| For the Queen, the label is less important than the look. Her white bouclé coat threaded through with silver ribbon and embroidered with gold and silver spots was a year in the planning. Designed by her wardrobe guru Angela Kelly, its prime purpose was to stand out against the red upholstery of the barge. It did a fair job of standing out against the lead-coloured Thames too. This all suggests that this piecrust-frilled coat was a practical, rather than a heartfelt wardrobe choice, unlike last year's wedding outfit in her favourite shade of buttercup yellow. | For the Queen, the label is less important than the look. Her white bouclé coat threaded through with silver ribbon and embroidered with gold and silver spots was a year in the planning. Designed by her wardrobe guru Angela Kelly, its prime purpose was to stand out against the red upholstery of the barge. It did a fair job of standing out against the lead-coloured Thames too. This all suggests that this piecrust-frilled coat was a practical, rather than a heartfelt wardrobe choice, unlike last year's wedding outfit in her favourite shade of buttercup yellow. |
| Other practical touches to the monarch's look included black shoes, which are apparently worn in by someone else to stop the Queen getting blisters, her favourite black handbag, which was undone and suggested that she does in fact keep useful things in it, and pale lilac gloves. The overall effect wasn't especially chic, but it served its lighthouse-like duty for the crowds keen to spot her from the river banks. | Other practical touches to the monarch's look included black shoes, which are apparently worn in by someone else to stop the Queen getting blisters, her favourite black handbag, which was undone and suggested that she does in fact keep useful things in it, and pale lilac gloves. The overall effect wasn't especially chic, but it served its lighthouse-like duty for the crowds keen to spot her from the river banks. |
| The Duchess of Cornwall wore a creamy Anna Valentine coat and Philip Treacy hat while the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales and both his sons wore ceremonial dress. | The Duchess of Cornwall wore a creamy Anna Valentine coat and Philip Treacy hat while the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales and both his sons wore ceremonial dress. |
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