Nellie, I think I can help. It seems as if Queen Mary's coronation dress was displayed prior to the Coronation as "this is the dress the Queen will wear.." - obviously it was displayed on a headless dummy and I have a photo ex the Coronation special edition of the Illustrated London News which shows QMary in her dress. Under the photo it says "to be worn at her crowning" and final text reads " We wish to emphasise again the fact that this illustration is composite - made up of a portrait of her Majesty and a photgraph of the gown and train". They used a photo of QM with a fringe tiara, the love trophy collar & her V shaped diamond drop necklace. In the photograph that you show the photographers used another portrait of QM to paste above the dress - and they also decided that she needed a crown - any crown would do!
--Previous Message-- : : I am having difficulty getting a clear : enough pic of all the bodice ornaments Queen : Mary wore at her own coronation. : Her gown was heavily decorated making it : hard to see the jewels. : : But curiously, this first portrait, from the : UK National Portrait Gallery collection, : cannot be authentic. The crown is quite : wrong and not even the Imperial Crown of : India. : Queen Mary wore a collar of nine diamond : necklaces, including the QV/coronation : necklace, and not the Love Trophy. : She wore the full three-piece cockade in a V : formation with drops which I think are the : bottom two-thirds of the QV earrings now : named coronation earrings. : She also wore the Kensington bow brooch. : And more I think. (I’m working on various : pics at the moment.) : : That collection has another coronation : portrait, lower here, which is interestingly : labelled as “the only authentic” !! : : : : : Next, this RCIN 2808099 study for her : coronation picture shows her collar of : diamond necklaces beautifully. : : : Next is the “only authentic” also from the : National Portrait Gallery, which looks : correct to me. : : :
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