It has been expected that brides-to-be will choose a headpiece from their family collection on their wedding day, and afterwards will from the collections of their husband's family. Royal tradition dictates that tiaras are only to be worn by brides on their wedding day or by married women. Since then, the tiara has been exhibited around the world, including at a Royal Wedding Exhibition at Buckingham Palace in 2012. The Halo tiara eventually went into the royal vault where it was kept for years before Kate wore it for her wedding in 2011. The next member of the royal family to borrow the tiara was the Queen's daughter, Princess Anne, who wore it for the State Opening of Parliament in October 1967. She also wore it on for her sister's coronation in June 1953. Margaret made her first appearance in the Halo tiara during the inauguration celebrations for Queen Juliana of the Netherlands in September 1948.

Princess Anne, too, wore her mother's tiara, including on this visit to New Zealand in 1970 While the young Elizabeth was never seen with the tiara in public, her younger sister, Princess Margaret, was frequently pictured wearing it. She, in turn, made a gift of the platinum tiara to her daughter Princess Elizabeth, by on her 18th birthday in 1944. The then Duchess of York would become Queen and then Queen Mother, of course, before her death in 2002. Still then the Duke of York, George VI (Bertie to use his family name) had bought it for his wife on their anniversary. Made by Cartier in 1936, the Halo tiara had been bought by King George VI, King Charles's grandfather.

These were believed to mirror the headpiece worn by Carole at her wedding in 1980. The four young bridesmaids, including William's cousin Lady Louise Windsor and Queen Camilla's granddaughter Eliza Lopes, wore white flower crowns Lily Of The Valley and ivy. Lent to to the bride by the late Queen Elizabeth, this turned out to be her 'something borrowed' on the day itself, April 29.Īlthough Kate chose not to wear a flower crown, she still paid tribute to her family with her Robinson Pelham earrings - a gift from her parents - which featured a diamond acorn, intended to represent the Middleton family's coat of arms.

Prince William and Kate Middleton share a public kiss on the balcony of Buckingham Palace

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