Meghan Markle's £100,000 wedding dress that the Queen thought was 'too white' - as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex celebrate sixth anniversary By Eliza Scarborough Published: 12:13 BST, 19 May 2024 | Updated: 12:13 BST, 19 May 2024 e-mail View comments The 2018 royal wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex was watched by almost 30million people on television around the world. The anticipation in the days leading up to the iconic nuptials six years ago today was high and rumours were rife regarding who Meghan would wear down the aisle at St George's Chapel. In the end, Meghan chose to work with French fashion house Givenchy and Clare Waight Keller, their first first female artistic director.
The Duchess praised the designer's elegant aesthetic, impeccable tailoring, and relaxed demeanour. The understated dress was floor-length and featured long sleeves with a bateau neckline, reflective of Meghan's own classic personal style. Costing £100,000, it perfectly embodied her 'effortless American style,' said Waight Keller, who described the finished dress as 'not overly feminine, but not really minimal either.
' The late Queen Elizabeth II allegedly believed the the dress was 'too white' for a divorcee to wear in a church. Royal commentator Ingrid Seward said in her recent book My Mother and I: 'In the monarch's view, it was not appropriate for a divorcee getting remarried in church to look quite so flamboyantly virginal.' The 2018 royal wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex w.