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Part three of a series. Parts one and two

Telegraph - Queen’s 60th wedding anniversary: ‘Mam’selle placed the tulle on my shoulders…’

Betty Foster still has the scrap of ivory satin on which she practised a row of tiny buttonholes until she was competent enough to be let loose on Princess Elizabeth’s wedding dress. Until then, she had never worked a buttonhole in her life. “Now girls, no one must talk to Betty or distract her,” her boss at Norman Hartnell announced, as the 18-year-old seamstress bent her head to the task.

And the story continues from there.

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