The woman responsible for the Queen's style was trusted advisor Angela Kelly, who joined the royal household in 1994 as one of Her Majesty's dressers (she sold her washing machine to buy a smart outfit for her interview at Buckingham Palace) before working her way up to Her Majesty's personal assistant, advisor and ...
The Queen's former royal butler Paul Burrell revealed to Yahoo's Royal Box that her majesty does not pop on through to her wardrobe to pick her own outfits in the morning like most of us would, but instead has a whole floor of clothing that her dressers will sketch out options from, finally bringing down her chosen ...
Angela Kelly, the designer and dressmaker who served as the late Queen Elizabeth II's Personal Assistant and Senior Dresser for 30 years, will remain at her grace-and-favour home on the Windsor estate following the monarch's death on Thursday.
Many of the fancy clothes Queen Elizabeth wears at public events are designed and made at Buckingham Palace by Mary Angela Kelly and her team. Angela Kelly (born 4 November 1957, Liverpool) was taken on as a dresser in 1993 after working as a housekeeper for a British diplomat.
According to Brian Hoey, author of Not In Front of the Corgis, the queen regularly gave her old clothes to her dressers. From there, they could either keep the pieces, wear them, or sell them. Hoey notes that if pieces were sold, buyers couldn't know that the clothes came from Her Majesty.
Traditionally, members of the Royal Family are buried with items close to them, including jewellery and mementos.
According to Brian Hoey, the author of Not Infront of the Corgis, Her Majesty donates her old clothes to her dressers, who are then allowed to either wear it themselves or sell it.
What about the Queen and other members of the royal family? The Queen makes her own money, paid as part of the Sovereign Grant, and totals millions of dollars per year. Because of this, she is free to buy her own clothes, but no doubt has a self-set clothing allowance as well.
The Hon. Mary Morrison, who served as a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II from 1960 up until the Queen's death in 2022, accompanying the Queen to the national D-Day commemoration in Southsea in 2019.
Does the Queen wash her own dishes? The washing liquid was reportedly released after formal royal butler Paul Burrell revealed in 2020 that the Queen 'often does her own washing up and likes it'.
The Queen will be laid to rest today wearing only two precious pieces of jewellery. Her Majesty, who will be buried next to her husband Prince Philip later today, will wear only her wedding band and a pair of pearl earrings, despite owning a collection worth millions of pounds.
'There is a little 'shop' set up in the drawing room at Windsor Castle and the Queen can pop in and choose gifts at her leisure. 'Late at night, after dinner, usually around 10pm, she'll pop into her little Christmas shop and do some shopping.
2006 and 2008. After debuting this mauve coat by Angela Kelly for the Christmas Day church service at Sandringham in 2006, the Queen re-wore it multiple times, including for an engagement in London two years later.
Queen Elizabeth has very rarely been seen in trousers or any casual clothing in her 70-year-reign. She is always seen in grand dresses for state occasions and even virtual appearances on Zoom.
At her former primary residence, Buckingham Palace, and at her current home, Windsor Castle, the Queen has a staff on hand to take care of most of the chores we non-royals dread: The laundry. Vacuuming. Washing the dishes after a meal.
Kate's daily routine: school run, food shop, gym
Regularly dropping the children at school and doing the daily food shopping on nearby Kensington High Street, the duchess also prefers to swap the indoor gym at the Palace for runs in Kensington Gardens.
Like other ladies-in-waiting, she was not paid for the role and continued to serve the Queen until she died out of personal loyalty. When the late Queen was still travelling the globe in her role as Head of State, Lady Susan was by her side.
The Royal Family has opened its books to show how the Queen receives her money. A taxpayer-funded payment, known as the Sovereign Grant, is paid to the Royal Family each year - but it's not the Queen's only source of income.
Following Queen Elizabeth II's death at the age of 96, the monarch's priceless jewels will likely be given to members of the royal family, including Queen Consort Camilla and Kate Middleton.
Molton Brown is believed to be one of the monarch's favourites, with the British brand holding a Royal Warrant since 2013.
However, details about how her coffin will be dressed have been revealed. The Royal Standard, a flag that represents the Sovereign and the UK, will be draped on her coffin, accompanied by the Imperial State Crown, complete with more than 3,000 encrusted gemstones.
The queen was especially fond of sweets, but not so fond of the dentist. Her teeth rotted; they turned black and gave off a foul odor. Eventually, Elizabeth lost so many teeth that people found it difficult to understand her when she spoke.
The Queen's personal dresser, Angela Kelly, previously explained how the royal's repeat-wears were always carefully considered. “Typically, the lifespan of an outfit can be up to around 25 years,” Kelly wrote in her book The Other Side Of The Coin: The Queen, The Dresser And The Wardrobe, published in 2019.
It is a tradition that members of the Royal Family are buried in a lead-lined coffin in one of the royal sites. But this tradition was broken by Princess Margaret who was cremated instead.