Though Queen Elizabeth gets a bad rap for the way she treated Princess Diana, some royal enthusiasts might not know that the duo started a new royal wedding custom together. "The People's Princess" is the one who, with some prodding from the Queen, began the tradition of having two royal bouquets at her wedding — something it's believed both Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle followed — and the reason why makes so much sense. It was at the Queen's request that Diana decided to have two royal bouquets. "If we go back to the Queen’s wedding in 1947, when you look at the state photographs of all the bridesmaids and royal guests — there’s the queen without a bouquet," David Longman, the chief florist at Diana's wedding, explained during a segment of the British program Invitation to the Royal Wedding. "It got lost, so in the middle of their honeymoon, they had...
- 6/9/2018
- by Melanie Aman
- Closer Weekly
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