Royal Wedding | Princess Alexandra of Kent on her marriage to The Honourable Angus Ogilvy, 24 April 1963. The wedding dress was designed by Irish designer John Bryan Cavanagh (1914-2003). His vision was translated into magnolia-tinted cotton lace and he described how "the dress flows in a simple unbroken line silhouetting a slender waist line, into a very long train cut in one with the skirt. The closely moulded bodice has a high rounded neckline and long, close-fitting sleeves." The veil, which interestingly, was in the same fabric as the dress, was 20ft long and edged with a wide border of old Valenciennes lace which belonged to Princess Nicholas of Greece.
