Angela Kelly
Angela Kelly, LVO, is a designer, dressmaker and milliner, who has served as Personal Assistant and Senior Dresser to Queen Elizabeth II since 2002.[1]
The daughter of a Liverpool dock worker, Ms Kelly is responsible for the Queen's clothes, jewellery and insignia.[2] She researches the venues for royal visits as well as the significance of different colours, in order to create appropriate outfits for the monarch.[3]
She is a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO).[4]
Notable creations by Angela Kelly include:
- the Queen's outfit for the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge,[5] a primrose-yellow double crepe wool coat and matching wool dress, with hand-sewn beading at the neck in the shape of sunrays;
- Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie's outfits for the wedding of Zara Phillips.[6]
Bibliography
- Dressing the Queen: The Jubilee Wardrobe, 132 pages, 2011. ISBN 978-1-905686-26-1[7]
References
- ↑ Royal Collection - Queen & Commonwealth
- ↑ Royal Wedding: Queen's confidant Angela Kelly to dress her majesty for the royal wedding - hellomagazine.com
- ↑ "Her Majesty's A team". Daily Telegraph.
- ↑ 2012 Jubilee Honours List - Royal.gov website
- ↑ Liverpool-born designer Angela Kelly designed the Queen's Royal Wedding outfit - In The Mix Today - News - Liverpool Echo
- ↑ Zara Phillips wedding guests: fashion verdicts - mirror.co.uk
- ↑ New Royal Collection Trust publication Dressing The Queen: The Jubilee Wardrobe