--Previous Message-- : Such an elegant and happy bride! That : Boticelli like dress was pure beauty... : : I recently saw a documentary on royal : bridesmaids, in BBC I think. In it India : Hicks talkes with her mother Lady Pamela : Mountbatten about how they were both royal : bridesmaids. : Lady Pamela remembers the incident when the : bridal tiara was being placed on Pss : Elizabeth's head, and sudentlly the tiara : snaps in two... according to Lady Pamela, : the Queen mother said "we have plenty : tiaras" and it was decided to get : another tiara... : : Well, the story I've always heard was that : indeed the bridal tiara snaps, and the royal : jeweler is summond in urgency to repair it. : And in the pictures the tiara (Queen Mary's : 1919 fringe tiara) doesn't seem to be very : simetrical... : : Has anyone else heard this interview with : Lady Pamela? Was there a second option for : bridal tiara like she claims? We seem to : have contadictory reports on the events of : that day.