Queen Victoria is commonly credited with the wide-scale popularity of the white wedding dress, but how did this association come about? In 1840, on the day of her wedding, Queen Victoria stated she ...
It was a trend started by Queen Victoria at her wedding to her husband Albert. Before this event many women wore their best church dress to their weddings, which were unlikely to be white due to ...
24 hours before Prince William and his bride-to-be, Catherine Middleton, tied the knot in a fairytale wedding ceremony ...
Queen Victoria restored the reputation of a monarchy ... Victoria wore a large white wedding dress and had a tiered wedding cake. This started a new tradition among brides who in the past had ...
This black mourning dress of Queen Victoria from the Fashion Museum takes us back to a period in Bath's life that saw the founding of the Victoria Art Gallery in 1897. Royal Victoria Park had ...
Queen Victoria scolded the then Prime Minister Lord Salisbury for the failure to catch Jack the Ripper. Historian Lucy Worsley discovered the dressing-down in a telegram the monarch sent to the PM ...
She has signed up for a bridal registry and is planning ... After the white dress fashion was started by Queen Victoria, the idea got around that it symbolized virginity. But the vulgarity of ...