Queen's wedding attire, gifts on display

LONDON, July 27 (UPI) -- Queen Elizabeth II stepped back to her wedding day 60 years ago in post-war Britain as she privately reviewed a new summer exhibit at Buckingham Palace.

"A Royal Wedding: 20 November 1947" includes her Norman Hartnell couturier wedding gown and many of the 2,500 wedding presents -- from tinned pineapple to hosiery and glove, a refrigerator to a diamond stomacher (a panel worn across the front of a dress) presented by her grandmother, Queen Mary, the Times of London reported Friday.

The exhibit is in Ball Supper Room, where the queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's had their wedding breakfast after the Westminster Abbey service.

The ivory silk-satin wedding dress, with its fitted bodice and heart-shaped neckline, is embroidered in more than 10,000 seed pearls and crystals.

Hugh Roberts, director of the Royal Collection, escorted the monarch on her private tour before the display opens Friday.

"This one is very personal to her and must bring back many extraordinary memories of that day 60 years ago," Roberts told The Times.

The duke's wedding outfit is on display, as are the ensemble worn by the Queen Mother and the silk tulle bridesmaids' dresses.