Friday, 29 Mar 2024

Princess Beatrice wedding: Could Beatrice snub this royal wedding tradition like Eugenie?

Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi became engaged in September, after a romantic holiday to Italy that month. The pair announced they will wed in 2020, but not much else is known about the nuptials.

Beatrice may be taking wedding planning notes from her younger sister Eugenie, as she married Jack Brooksbank in 2018.

Eugenie’s lavish wedding took place at St George’s Chapel in Windsor on October 12, 2018.

Royal weddings are full of historic tradition and are often a spectacle to behold.

Traditions include laying the wedding bouquet on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Queen entering the ceremony last and a sprig of Myrtle featuring in bouquets.

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However, some royal traditions have fallen by the wayside in recent years.

One such tradition is the use of Honiton lace in royal wedding dresses.

Honiton lace is a type of bobbin lace made in Honiton, Devon.

It features designs of objects like flowers and leaves as well as scrollwork.

This lace is used for the royal christening gown, which was first made in 1841 for Queen Victoria’s daughter, Princess Victoria’s baptism.

Despite a replica being used for royal babies today, the dress is made from Honiton lace like the original.

All three of the Cambridge children – Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis – have worn the Honiton christening gown.

Queen Victoria featured the fabric in her wedding dress, which was white satin with a deep flounce of Honiton lace. She also wore a lace veil.

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Queen Victoria married Prince Albert on April 10, 1840, at the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace.

Princess Victoria – Queen Victoria’s oldest daughter – also used Honiton lace in her gown, with three flounces of the Devonshire made fabric used in her dress.

Princess Victoria’s lace was decorated with roses, shamrocks and thistles – the emblems of England, Ireland and Scotland.

She married Prince Frederick of Prussia on January 25, 1858.

Queen Victoria’s second daughter Princess Alice married Prince Louis of Hesse in a rather understated affair.

This was because Prince Albert had died seven months earlier and the Royal Family were still in mourning.

Alice’s dress was described as “half-high dress with a deep flounce of Honiton lace, a veil of the same and a wreath of orange blossom and myrtle. It was a simple style and not embellished with a court train”.

Following what now appeared to be tradition, Princess Helena married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein at Windsor Castle on July 5, 1866, in a white satin dress with Honiton lace used in the flounces and veil. The Honiton lace featured roses, ivy and myrtle.

Princess Alexandra married Prince Albert, The Prince of Wales at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle on March 10, 1863.

Her white silk dress was adorned with orange blossom and trimmed with Honiton lace in a pattern of roses, shamrocks and thistles.

On March 21, 1871, Princess Louise, the sixth child of Queen Victoria, married the Marquis of Lorne (heir of to the Dukedom of Argyll) at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Louise’s white silk wedding dress was embroidered with national and royal symbols, with deep flounces of flower-strewn Honiton lace, and a short wedding veil of Honiton lace which she designed herself.

Queen Victoria’s youngest child Princess Beatrice married Prince Henry of Battenberg at St Mildred’s Church at Whippingham on July 23, 1885.

Beatrice’s white satin dress and lace overskirt were trimmed with orange blossom and white heather.

Princess Beatrice was a lover of lace and one of her most treasured possessions was said to be a tunic of point d’Alençon lace which had belonged to Catherine of Aragon.

Queen Victoria’s youngest was the only daughter allowed to wear the Honiton lace veil that she wore for her wedding.

Modern brides like then Princess Elizabeth, Princess Diana, Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle and Princess Eugenie did not feature Honiton lace in their dresses.

Despite Kate, Duchess of Cambridge’s dress famously being made out of lace, this was created by three companies, Sophie Hallette, Solstiss in France, and the Cluny Lace Company in Ilkeston, Derbyshire.

Princess Beatrice may look for inspiration in her ancestors, however, she may also follow the path of modern brides and not feature Honiton lace.

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