Dress worn by Queen Elizabeth, consort of King George VI at the 1937 Coronation. Designed and made by Handley-Seymour it was of English silk and in a Princess shape with a full train. The dress was richly embroidered in gold, with gold beads, sequins and diamante in a design repeating the floral emblems of the British Isles and the Empire used on the purple velvet robe and including the English oak leaf and acorn.