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The wedding garments of the Royal Family, exposed in Aranjuez
The Museum of the Life in Palace, which assembles uniforms, suits and objects of the different Reigns from times of Felipe V, has dedicated two rooms to Don Juan Carlos
MADRID. The uniforms and garments that the members of the Royal Family have used in the most important moments will be able to be contemplated from today in Aranjuez's Royal Palace. The most spectacular of all they will be, without any doubt, the wedding garments that in its day there shone Her Majesty the Queen and Her Royal Highnesses the Princess of Asturias and the Infantas Dona Elena and Dona Cristina. But together with them also there will be exposed some uniforms that Don Juan Carlos and Don Felipe shone in transcendental moments of the recent history.
All these apparels have been assembled in both new rooms that the Museum of the Life in Palace has dedicated to Don Juan Carlos' Reign and that today will be presented to the mass media in Aranjuez's Royal Palace by National wealth. Close to these rooms, also there will show themselves several works of art related to the Christmas that form a part of the Collections of the Royal Patronage and that normally are not exposed to the public visit.
The Museum of the Life in Palace, which begins with the Reign of Felipe V and includes several thematic rooms - for example example, the dedicated one to the fans of the Royal Family-, was ending with Alfonso XIII and now have been added two rooms dedicated to Don Juan Carlos' Reign in which there are exposed the uniforms and the gowns used in different institutional ceremonies.
Uniforms of the King and the Prince
This way, for example, it will be possible contemplate the uniform of general captain of the Army that the King shone the day of his proclamation (November 22, 1975), or the garment that Dona Sofía was taking in the mass of the Holy Spirit informed in the Church of the Jerónimos five days later.
Between the clothier of the Prince of Asturias there has been chosen the cadet's uniform that dressed in the General Militar Academy of Zaragoza, with that he swore flag on October 11, 1985, and the chaqué that dressed on January 30, 1986, when on having expired 18 years he swore loyalty to the Constitution and to the King.
To these historical gowns there add four wedding) garments that there shone the Queen, the Princess of Asturias and the Infantas Dona Elenas and Dona Cristina. In I make concrete, it will be possible admire the garment of silver satin, covered of lace and tulle, which there designed the Greek designer Jean Dessés, in order that Dona Sofía was shining it on May 14, 1962 in her matrimonial link with Don Juan Carlos in Athens.
Also it will still be had exposed by the public the wedding garment that the Infanta Dona Elena took on March 18, 1995, when she married in Seville with Jaime de Marichalar. In I make concrete, color treats itself about Petro Valverde's design made in organza about natural silk ivory with embroideries. Likewise, there will be exposed the garment designed by Lorenzo Caprile in Spanish silk and threads of silver, which the Infanta Dona Cristina shone when she married Iñaki Urdangarín on October 4, 1997 in Barcelona. To them there will add Manuel Pertegaz's spectacular design that the Princess of Asturias took in her wedding with Don Felipe on May 22, 2004.
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