If it is not the same occasion then the Queen is wearing the same gown -- another of those which were not memorable for great style.
Nancy Mitford, Deborah Cavendish's eldest sister, in a letter to their sister Diana Mosley (18 March 1945):
"Oh the Royal Family - just one cloud of myosotis. I'm sure they ought to try & be more glamorous but then, with those figures & those faces, how? Never would they acquire the Doll Waist so much advocated by the couturiers unless by such tight lacing as to make them scarlet in the face & utterly breathless."
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