Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi announced their engagement late in September, with a wedding to follow at some point in 2020. Millionaire property tycoon Edo proposed as the pair took a romantic getaway to Italy early in September.eisenge
With any royal wedding, there are a series of traditions to follow, whether this is laying the wedding bouquet at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Westminster Abbey, or the Queen entering the church after her relatives.
Each wedding dress is unique to the bride who wears it, however, there could be one tradition Princess Beatrice borrows from her ancestors.First established by Queen Victoria in the 19th century, Honiton lace was once a key feature of royal wedding dresses.
Honiton lace is a type of bobbin lace made in Honiton, Devon, featuring designs focused objects such as flowers and leaves as well as scrollwork.The lace is used for the royal christening gown, first made in 1841 for Queen Victoria’s daughter, Princess Victoria’s baptism.
Despite a replica being used for royal babies today, the dress is made from Honiton lace like its predecessor.Honiton lace was used for Queen Victoria’s wedding to Prince Albert on April 10, 1840, at the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace.
Queen Victoria’s dress featured white satin with a deep flounce of Honiton lace. She also wore a lace veil.Like her mother before her, Princess Victoria also used Honiton lace, with three flounces of the Devonshire made fabric used in her dress.
The lace was decorated with roses, shamrocks and thistles – the emblems of England, Ireland and Scotland for Princess Victoria’s wedding to Prince Frederick of Prussia on January 25, 1858.Queen Victoria’s second daughter Princess Alice married Prince Louis of Hesse in a rather understated affair as Prince Albert had died just seven months earlier and the Royal Family were still in mourning.
Alice’s dress was described as “half-high dress with a deep flounce of Honiton lace, a veil of the same and a wreath of orange blossom and myrtle. It was a simple style and not embellished with a court train”.