1/18To wed Prince William in 2011, Kate Middleton wore a Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen custom dress made with hand-cut English and Chantilly lace with a 2.6m train and veil held in place by Queen Elizabeth's Cartier halo tiara.
2/18Lady Diana Spencer changed from jeans into a now-iconic ivory silk taffeta dress designed by Elizabeth and David Emanuel and featuring 10,000 pearls, hand embroidery and antique lace that belonged to Queen Mary for her 1981 wedding to Prince Charles.
3/18Princess Elizabeth wed Philip Mountbatten in 1947 in a pearl embroidered Norman Hartnell ivory satin dress with full court train, worn with satin sandals with silver buckles.
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4/18King George VI wrote to his beloved daughter after her wedding: "I have watched you grow up all these years with pride under the skilful direction of Mummy, who, as you know is the most marvellous person in the World in my eyes, and I can, I know, always count on you, and now Philip, to help us in our work."
5/18Marrying Prince Andrew in 1986, Sarah Ferguson chose a Lindka Kierach custom dress with beading incorporating symbols including anchors, waves, bumblebees and thistles, with a five metre train with A and S initials sewn in silver beads.
6/18Designed by Maureen Baker, Princess Anne's wedding dress for her 1973 wedding to Captain Mark Phillips was a contemporary 1970s style with high neckline and feature sleeves.
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7/18For her church wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956, actress Grace Kelly wore a Helen Rose dress sewn by 30 seamstresses and made from over 270 metres of antique Belgian lace.
8/18Zara Phillips bought her understated Stewart Parvin ivory gown off-the-rack at a rural English boutique to wed Mike Tindall in 2011, but teamed it with Princess Anne's Greek key diamond tiara.
9/18To marry Prince Edward in 1999, Sophie Rhys Jones wore a Samantha Shaw coat dress made of ivory silk organza embroidered with over 325,000 pearl and crystal beads.
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10/18Over 30 metres of silk organza made up the skirt of Princess Margaret's Norman Hartnell gown when she wed Antony Armstrong Jones in 1960.
11/18Marrying Prince Frederik of Denmark in 2004, Mary Donaldson wore an Uffe Frank gown with a skirt that opened to reveal nearly eight metres of Irish lace.
12/18American Lisa Halaby wore a bohemian-inspired Dior dress and no makeup when she became Queen Noor by marrying King Hussein of Jordan in 1978.
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13/18Former newsreader Letizia Ortiz wed Spain's Crown Prince Felipe in a high-necked Manuel Pertegaz gown with fleur de lis, strawberry flower and wheat sheaf embroidery paired with a tiara from her mother-in-law Queen Sofia.
14/18Sofia Hellqvist, now Princess Sofia, wed Prince Carl Philip of Sweden in a lace gown by Ida Sjostedt with appliques of sheer cotton and designed to show the star-shaped tattoo on her back.
15/18To wed her personal trainer Daniel Westling in 2010, Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria wore a Par Engsheden gown with shawl collar neckline and five metre detachable train.
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16/18Exchanging vows with Crown Prince Haakon of Norway in 2001, Mette-Marit Tjessem Hoiby wore an ivory crepe and tulle Ove Harder Finseth gown and carried a tapestry of ivy and wildflowers instead of a bouquet.
17/18Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, mother of Queen Elizabeth, wore a pearl and silver thread embellished gown created by former court dressmaker Madame Handley Seymour to wed Prince Albert (later King George VI) in 1923.
18/18Getting ready, Princess Diana spilled perfume on her wedding dress and used her giant bouquet to cover the stain.
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