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Miss Joan Pike, from Ful- ham, helped to embroider the Queen's wedding dress.

MADAME ISABELLE, one of the fitters, keeps pins and tacking cotton

ready,

Many of the girls working on

of the gown, especially the Coronation gown are those

ils fastenings and the way it who

worked on the Queen's

should be worn, for it is she who wedding dress,

will dress the Queen when the IN COTTON WOOL"

day to wear the gown arrives. She must also remember the accompanying jewels.

Any embroidery on the gown would be done by hand by expert embroldresses. They are

"Sometimes, after the fitting, in charge of Miss E. Duley, who

we are given tea in the Queen's has worked for Mr Hartnell for

sitting-room before we leave," 20 years.

Mme Denise said.

"The Queen is always most In Mme Isabelle's workroom a of the patient

figure during Atings, and dressmaker's makes us feel at ease. Naturally Queen is used for minor fittings we are a little nervous, but, to see that seams and heme sel The Azure has been properly. soon wears off."

shaped with muslin and cotton Prince Philip never appears wool to the Queen's exact size. at a fitting, although the Queen It stands in tho workroom will probably have consulted obscured behind a linen curtain, him when making her selection separated from the dozens of

work figures of of the designs before-

Hartnell's other customers. starts.

MADAME DENISE goes to the Palace to help with the

Bitings of thd (Jucen's gowns.