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Princess unveils historic wedding dress

Initially scheduled for May of this year, HRH Princess Beatrice’s wedding to property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi eventually took place in private on 17 July at Windsor’s Royal Chapel of All Saints. She was back in Berkshire two months later for the unveiling of the dress in a new display at Windsor Castle.

While the wedding attire of a princess ninth in line to the British and the State Opening of Parliament in 1966. The historic dress was taken in for Princess Beatrice and goes on display alongside her Valentino wedding shoes and an artificial recreation of her bouquet.

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