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Fun Fashion Fact

Did you know that when Queen Elizabeth II (then Princess Elizabeth) married the Duke of Edinburgh in 1947, she had to purchase the fabric for her wedding dress with coupons because Britain was still under war rationing: “Thousands of Britons tried to donate their own ration coupons to the Princess; she thanked them all, but did not accept them.”