Queen Victoria’s wedding dress is a
powerful symbol of what she would refer to in her journal as the
‘happiest day of my life’. Most probably, it represents more than
any other item of clothing or object, the Queen’s identity as a
royal bride. Certainly, she chose to wear it again in 1847, when
she was painted in her wedding attire by the fashionable
portraitist Franz Xaver Winterhalter…
