Justine Picardie

Name: Justine Picardie
Start: 2026-06-11T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-11T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Cullen Kilshaw Marquee

The author of Miss Dior explores how Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, Duchess of Windsor and Queen Elizabeth II used fashion and imagery to safeguard the monarchy.

Saturday, 13 June 2026

3:45pm ‐ 4:45pm

Cullen Kilshaw Marquee
Harmony Garden and Orchard, St Mary's Road, Melrose, TD6 9LJ

https://tikt.link/justine

Information

Fashioning the Crown: A Story of Power, Conflict and Culture is the sparkling new book from the author of Miss Dior and Coco Chanel. “I have to be seen to be believed,” said the late Queen, understanding perfectly the power of imagery. Told through the medium of royal fashion, with more than a hundred beautiful photographs, this is the story of the leading women of the House of Windsor: Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, the Duchess of Windsor and Queen Elizabeth II, and also the lives of the creators of those images, including Hardy Amies, Cecil Beaton, Norman Hartnell and Edward Molyneux. Even when reigns seemed to be hanging by a thread, this brilliant book shows how iconography, the power of appearances, safeguarded the monarchy.