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The untold story behind Princess Margaret’s most magnificent dress ever
At a 1964 costume ball, Princess Margaret wowed in a gown designed by an unlikely collaborator
25 May 2021 • 5:00pm
Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon at the Georgian Ball at Mansion house on July 1964
Credit: Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy Stock Photo
mille feuille Christian Dior 21st birthday gown, the regal wedding dress created by Norman Hartnell and all those flamboyant Mustique party kaftans. But visitors to the new Royal Style in the Making exhibition, which opens at Kensington Palace next week, will find a new, relatively unknown contender for the crown.
On 1st July 1964, Margaret attended a Georgian-themed ball at Mansion House, fundraising for the Friends of St. John’s. Naturally, the fashion-loving Princess pulled out all the stops for the evening, commissioning an extravagant gown which, according to Matthew Storey, curator at Historic Royal Palaces ‘was more eighteenth century t