(28 Jun 2024)
UK CHRISTIE’S AUCTION
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS / BRITISH MOVIETONE
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, United Kingdom – 28 June 2024
1. Wide of auction house worker holding royal bridesmaid’s dress as photographers take photos. The dress was worn by the late Lady Elizabeth Longman, a childhood friend of Queen Elizabeth II, at the late Queen’s wedding in 1947
2. Close of decorative patterns of royal bridesmaid dress
3. Various of Benedict Winter, Associated Director of Private and Iconic Collections at Christies Auction House, inspecting bridesmaid dress
4. SOUNDBITE (English): Benedict Winter, Associated Director of Private and Iconic Collections at Christies Auction House:
"This is an amazing dress. It’s one of eight bridesmaid dresses from the late Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh’s wedding in 1947. It was designed by Norman Hartnell and was worn by Lady Elizabeth Lambart later Longman at that amazing event in 1947. It holds a very special place in both royal history but also fashion history designed by one of the greatest British fashion designers of the 20th century"
BRITISH MOVIETONE
ARCHIVE: London, UK – 20 November 1947
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+++DISCLAIMER: BRITISH MOVIETONE IS AN HISTORICAL COLLECTION. ANY VIEWS AND EXPRESSIONS WITHIN EITHER THE VIDEO OR METADATA OF THE COLLECTION ARE REPRODUCED FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY AND DO NOT REPRESENT THE OPINIONS OR EDITORIAL POLICIES OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS+++
5. Various archive footage of marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh +FADES OUT TO BLACK+
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, United Kingdom – 28 June 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (English): Benedict Winter, Associated Director of Private and Iconic Collections at Christies Auction House:
"This lot is being sold as part of the exceptional sale here in London on the 2nd July and that sale is all about craftmanship, quality and provenance. This lot really epitomises all of those things. It’s an amazing piece of fashion history with the most amazing craftmanship and it has the most amazing provenance to one of the great royal events of the 20th century"
7. Close tilt of bridesmaid dress embroidery
8. Various wides of exhibits at the Christie’s auction house’s Exceptional Sale collection for the Christie’s Classic Week event
9. Medium of Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi Florentine bronze sculpture bust of a smiling faun
10. Various wides of paintings, sculpture, drawings and watercolours part of the Old Masters collection for Christie’s auction house’s Classic Week
11. Various of ‘John Ferneley Senior’ by Thrussington 1782-1860 depicting horses Intrepid, Conqueror and Bay Bolton with Silkman and Darnley beyond in a landscape
12. Various of Clementine Sinclair, Head of Old Master paintings department, observing Titian’s early masterpiece ‘Rest on the Flight into Egypt’
13. SOUNDBITE (English): Clementine Sinclair, Head of Old Master paintings department at Christie’s Auction House:
14. Various of George Stubb’s Mares and Foals painting as two auction house workers stand posing for photographers
15. SOUNDBITE (English): Clementine Sinclair, Head of Old Master paintings department at Christie’s Auction House:
16. Various of ‘The Madonna of the Cherries’ oil painting by Quentin Metsys
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