English couturier born in south London in 1901…

English couturier born in south London in 1901, who quit Cambridge without taking a degree and opened a Bruton Street dressmaking house. He clothed the royal court for decades, devising the all-white wardrobe worn by Queen Elizabeth on a state visit to Paris and the ivory satin wedding gown of Princess Elizabeth in 1947. Embroidered emblems of the Commonwealth nations covered the coronation dress he built for her in 1953.

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