The wedding diaries: a royal wedding scrapbook belonging to Princess Diana's wedding dress designer Elizabeth Emanuel is
The Sarah Burton of her day, Elizabeth Emanuel created the wedding dress worn by the late Princess of Wales on her wedding day to Prince Charles in 1981.
And now a scrapbook the designer made as a momento of the occasion is to go under the hammer in an online auction.
A bidding frenzy is expected from those wishing to own a piece of royal history.
A scrapbook kept by Princess Diana's wedding dress
designer Elizabeth Emanuel is up for sale
The scrapbook (measuring 8½” x 5¾”) is made of
deckle-edged hand-made paper incorporating lace and fabrics used for Princess
Diana’s wedding gown and her bridesmaids' dresses.
The front cover features a black and white print of Diana on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral and is edged with the specially commissioned Nottingham lace used on the bodice of the princess' bridal gown.
The inside cover is autographed by Elizabeth Emanuel herself.
The front cover features a black and white print of Diana on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral and is edged with the specially commissioned Nottingham lace used on the bodice of the princess' bridal gown.
The inside cover is autographed by Elizabeth Emanuel herself.
The front cover of the
scrapbook
A shot from the day
alongside a swatch of specially commissioned Newcastle lace
An initial sketch of the dress to be worn by the princess
- alongside a pretty parasol to be carried in case of rai
The auction on pfcauctions.com closes 24 May
The bridesmaids' dresses and a swatch of the fabric used
to create them
A shot of Elizabeth Emmanuel's Brook Street studio where
the dress was created
A sketch and its stunning realisation as worn by Princess
Diana on her wedding day in 1981
Diana continued to be a staunch supporter of Emmanuel,
wearing the label for her first public engagement, left and at a ball in
Melbourne Australia in 1985, right
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