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06/09/2011

Royal Wedding Dress Attracts 'Record' Visitors

The Duchess of Cambridge's wedding dress display has boosted visitor numbers at Buckingham Palace.

Over 354,000 people have flocked to the Palace since the exhibition opened on July 23rd.

It has been predicted that the wedding dress will earn up to £8million in admission charges.

Designed by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, the wedding dress is on display alongside the magnificent Cartier 'Halo' tiara, lent by The Queen to The Duchess on her wedding day.

You can also view the Duchess's wedding shoes, hand-made by the team at Alexander McQueen, the diamond earrings commissioned by the Middleton family as a personal gift to the bride from her parents and a replica of the bridal bouquet. The display also includes a special exhibition film in which Sarah Burton discusses for the first time the creation of the dress.

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To complement the wedding dress display, The Duke and Duchess’s wedding cake created by Leicestershire-based cake designer Fiona Cairns is shown in the State Dining Room. Three large-scale reproductions of the official wedding photographs showing The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the pages and young bridesmaids, and the royal wedding party, are also on display in the Throne Room where they were taken by photographer Hugo Burnand.

The display is part of the Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace,23 July - 3 October 201, which includes the nineteen magnificent State Rooms (with complimentary audio tour), the special exhibition Royal Fabergé, and ends with a walk along the south side of the Palace garden.

(GK/BMcC)

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"The Duchess of Cambridge's wedding dress display has boosted visitor numbers at Buckingham Palace."