Court dress of a Queen...Pt. 2

It is done! Queen Marie's beautiful Neapolitan Court dress ist reborn!
 
Finally I can reveal the replica gown for the role of Marie Sophie, last Queen of the two Sicilies in Susan Oswell's "Heroine of Gaeta":
 
Astrid Mathyshek in the role of Queen Marie, the Heroine of Gaeta
 
 
Made of white satin with short lace sleeves and a blue moiree sash it comes with many exquisite details: 
 

The silver brooch was made in Paris, natural freshwater pearls serve as decent jewellery of the neck and the Spanish cotton handfan with silver ornaments finishes the ensemble... 

 
The Neapolitan Court gown was made for the young Queen in 1859/60. It expresses solidarity of the sovereign with the neapolitan-sicilian culture of her people, kept in the traditional colours of Tarantella folk dance dresses: red and white...
 

Queen Marie Sophie loved pearls and so her portraits often show her wearing pearl necklaces, bracelets, brooches and even ropes of pearls braided in her hair, which was so long and voluminous that she was compared to lady Godiva...
More about the matter can be read in my book: 
 





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