Cream Embroidered Dress

This lovely cream dress is embellished on the skirt and short sleeves with satin bas-relief embroidery and scallops edging the hem and just above the elbow. Diana wore this outfit, along with a two toned hat by designer Marina Killery to the Gulf Forces Parade in June 1991. On the left side, she proudly displayed her regimental brooch of the 13^th/18^th Royal Hussars of which she was colonel-in-chief. She wore this often to military related events, and it would have been a key jewelry item on FM’s Navy Inspecting the Guard Suit (if FM hadn’t chosen to airbrush it out of history.)

The outfit was also worn to a service of thanksgiving at Portsmouth Cathedral wearing a red rose instead of the brooch, as in the replica.

The badge emblem is formed of a banner scroll ribbon in a Z shape superimposed over the letters “QMO” (for Queen Mary’s Own—a former name of the regiment,) under a crown of St Edward. The top bar of the Z is marked with 13^th in Roman numerals, the bottom with 18^th, and the connecting diagonal bar says “Royal Hussars.”