With only 6 weeks left until the coronation of King Charles, the final details are yet to be agreed upon. Thinking about the dress code and about what major innovations the future sovereign will introduce, hinting that the ceremony will be very different from the ceremony of his mother in 1953. All eyes will be on the closest members of the royal family and commentators are wondering how the princesses will be dressed, most notably Kate Middleton of course. The Princess of Wales, according to some insiders, may have chosen to keep a low profile, breaking protocol and even choosing not to wear the traditional tiara.
“Tiaras were worn by almost all the royal ladies at the Queen’s coronation in 1953, as well as by many aristocrats,” she explains. People Lauren Kiena, royal jewelery expert and book author court jeweler, “but times have certainly changed in 70 years.” Naturally, King Charles and Queen Camilla will wear crowns. The Crown of Saint Edward for the Sovereign, which means “the most important and sacred of all crowns”, used only at the time of the coronation, and the Crown of Queen Mary for the queen consort. This is the crown already worn by George V at his coronation in 1911. for the first time in recent history, an existing crown is reused for a ceremony.
This choice assumes desire of Charles III to simplify the formalities and Kate could follow the same line by leaving the tiara at home. “I certainly hope to see a lot of coronation tiaras,” Kiena explains. People, “but it is possible that Charles is following the example of some of his European counterparts, such as the King of the Netherlands, in establishing a formal daytime dress code for the event.” Royals can still wear extremely precious jewelry such as necklaces, brooches and earrings while avoiding tiaras and tiaras, the expert said. “I would be sad if this were true,” Kiena concludes, “but this may just be another stage in the ‘deformalization’ of the British real world that has taken place over the past few decades.”
Source: Elle