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The Royal Bridal Bouquet: From Wedding Accessory to Royal Remembrance

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Figure 1 Queen Elizabeth inspects a bouquet of flowers placed on her behalf at the grave of the Unknown Warrior by her Equerry, Lieutenant Colonel Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah, during a ceremony in London’s Westminster Abbey to mark the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Warrior, in Britain November 4, 2020.

(Alamy Image/ © Aaron Chown/Pool via REUTERS)

Figure 1 Queen Elizabeth inspects a bouquet of flowers placed on her behalf at the grave of the Unknown Warrior by her Equerry, Lieutenant Colonel Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah, during a ceremony in London’s Westminster Abbey to mark the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Warrior, in Britain November 4, 2020.(Alamy Image/ © Aaron Chown/Pool via REUTERS)

Figure 2 The Marriage of Victoria, Princess Royal, 25 January 1858, John Phillip, 1860

(Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022)

Figure 2 The Marriage of Victoria, Princess Royal, 25 January 1858, John Phillip, 1860(Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022)

Figure 3 The Marriage of the Duke of Albany, 27th April 1882, Sir James Dromgole Linton, 1885

(Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022)

Figure 3 The Marriage of the Duke of Albany, 27th April 1882, Sir James Dromgole Linton, 1885(Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022)

Figure 4 Photographs showing Princess Patricia of Connaught arriving for her wedding at Westminster Abbey with her father (above) and leaving with her husband after the ceremony (below), published in ‘The Wedding Princess Patricia: to and from the Abbey’, The Illustrated London News, 8 March 1919

(Author’s collection)

Figure 4 Photographs showing Princess Patricia of Connaught arriving for her wedding at Westminster Abbey with her father (above) and leaving with her husband after the ceremony (below), published in ‘The Wedding Princess Patricia: to and from the Abbey’, The Illustrated London News, 8 March 1919(Author’s collection)

Figure 5 Photographs from the return procession after the wedding of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles, including the laying of Princess Mary’s bridal bouquet at the Cenotaph, published in ‘The Return from the Abbey. Scenes along the Route Back to the Palace’, The Sphere LXXXVIII:1154, 4 March 1922.

(Author’s collection)

Figure 5 Photographs from the return procession after the wedding of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles, including the laying of Princess Mary’s bridal bouquet at the Cenotaph, published in ‘The Return from the Abbey. Scenes along the Route Back to the Palace’, The Sphere LXXXVIII:1154, 4 March 1922.(Author’s collection)

Figure 6 Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh. Wedding photograph taken at Buckingham Palace after the wedding ceremony. Baron (Sterling Henry Nahum), 20 November 1947

(Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022)

Figure 6 Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh. Wedding photograph taken at Buckingham Palace after the wedding ceremony. Baron (Sterling Henry Nahum), 20 November 1947(Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022)