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Rare glimps into a Royal Wedding

Posted by Karen on April 27, 2026, 8:38 am

Glamis Castles holds one of the last surviving Bridesmaids dresses for the Wedding of Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon and Prince Albert, Duke of York.

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Re: Rare glimps into a Royal Wedding

Posted by Hollie24 on April 27, 2026, 11:59 am, in reply to "Rare glimps into a Royal Wedding"

How wonderful that this dress has survived! It's made even more special when we know that the wearer eventually married the late QM's brother and is the great-grandmother of the current Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorn.

Re: Rare glimps into a Royal Wedding

Posted by Hollie24 on April 27, 2026, 12:09 pm, in reply to "Re: Rare glimps into a Royal Wedding"

I wanted to know more about Betty Cator, the bridesmaid who wore this gown and married into the Bowes Lyon family, and found out that she had twin daughters as well as two non-twin sons. One of her twins, Mary Cecilia, was godmother to the late Diana, Princess of Wales. I had no idea about that connection between the Bowes Lyon family and the Spencer family. I knew about the late QM's friendships with both of Diana's grandmothers and her great aunt, but not the godmother bit. Pretty cool.

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