Wedding dress of Queen Victoria

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Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on 10 February 1840 in the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace. She wore a white wedding dress made from heavy silk satin, which made her look more like a bride and less like a queen. The English-made Honiton lace used for her wedding dress proved an important boost to Devon lace-making. Queen Victoria is erroneously credited with starting the tradition of white weddings and white bridal gowns. Perhaps because of the extensive press coverage of the wedding, she may be considered to have popularised the white wedding gown, but other royals and other women of her time were already wearing white.

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