ROYAL WEDDING DRESS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25300, 27 September 1947, Page 2

ROYAL WEDDING DRESS

STYLE KEPT SECRET PRINCESSES TO SEE GOWN ON MONDAY (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON. September 26. Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret are travelling to London from Scotland on Monday to look at Princess Elizabeth’s wed ’ing dress at Norman Hartnell’s Bruton street emporium. Princess Elizabeth has decreed that the dress is not to be seen until she walks down the aisle of Westminster Abbey. Norman Hartnell and the designers and sempstresses have been sworn to secrecy, though during the middle of October he will be permitted to show the specially woven material to a few fasl on writers and experts About a fortnight before the wedding others will be allowed to see sketches of the gown. It is said that they have given a solemn promise to say nothing about it until the wedding day. Having seen the dress, the Princesses will return to Scotland to continue their holiday. They will be back in London with Their “Majesties in the second week of October.

Princess Elizabeth is reported to have given her “warm approval” to a plan by Mr Douglas Fairbanks, jun., that American wedding presents to her should take the form of food parcels for needy English families. A “Princess Elizabeth Wedding Gift” campaign has been launched and parcels will be sent to England costing 10 dollars and containing four kinds of meat, butter, sugar, fruit juices, egg powder, soap, and other items difficult to obtain in Britain.