Queen Elizabeth Had to Scramble for a Mourning Dress after the Sudden Death of Her Father, King Geor
  • 2 years ago
In almost 70 years of her reign, Queen Elizabeth has managed to avoid a single style mishap — but that very nearly wasn't the case.  After the sudden death of her father King George VI on February 6, 1952, while the then-Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip were on a break from their Commonwealth tour in Kenya, the new Queen had to rush back to the U.K. The hasty return meant that she boarded the plane in the summer clothes that she had been wearing (reportedly a beige dress with white shoes) rather than the black mourning outfit she would have been expected to wear when she arrived in England.  According to Lady Pamela Hicks, Philip's cousin and a lady-in-waiting to the Queen, the situa ...
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