Worn by The Queen for the wedding of Princess Margaret to Mr Antony Armstrong Jones, 6 May 1960 at Westminster Abbey. This ensemble was designed by Norman Hartnell, who was responsible for designing Princess Margaret’s wedding dress and the ensembles worn by all the principal female members of the Royal Family on the occasion of Princess Margaret’s wedding. The wedding marked a turning point in the protocol of royal dress as it was the last occasion on which members of the Royal Family wore full length day dress for a family wedding. Cecil Beaton, the official photographer of the wedding described his portrait of The Queen taken on this occasion: ‘The Queen was enormously appealing to me. Her dress was quite wonderfully romantic – with a skirt of stiff folds – and everything of a kingfisher brilliance’.