When it comes to outfits, the Queen usually sticks to coordinating pieces like coats over dresses or skirt suit pieces, matching hats and in wet seasons co-ordinating umbrellas.
We’ve enjoyed watching the Monarch step out in bright bold colors and royal fans are giddy on seeing the Queen in leopard prints.
Her favourite Fulton umbrella label has launched a new design and we’re guessing her majesty might have a piece to rock in the wet season as it is her usual practice to match her outfit to her umbrella.
Nigel Fulton, CEO of the brand, proud owners of the Queen’s royal warrant and supply all her wet weather accessories in a rainbow of colours, in earlier times shared show he is approached by the Queen’s personal assistant and senior dresser Angela Kelly before the start of the seasons to design bespoke brollies for the Monarch.
He said: “The Queen’s senior dresser usually sends us swatches of material or colour chips for us to match the coloured border on the birdcage umbrellas,” he said. “We then produce samples for their approval and if no further changes are needed we make up the finished umbrellas.” The Queen Mother was also a fan of the colourful designs, and was the first royal to carry a Fulton umbrella – the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have also been spotted using them during rainy red carpet appearances. Talk about royally approved!
Now, we should not expect a full outfit match in prints but a possible match in scarf or brollies to the leopard print-trimmed umbrella that is designed to be completely transparent apart from the trim, allowing the crowds to catch a glimpse of Her Majesty when she’s walking past – and for the Monarch to have a little fun with different colours.
However, on rainy days, the Queen always matches her domed umbrella with her outfit. In fact, she once owned a glamorous leopard coat, worn in the 1950s and 60s – though it was in fact real fur, and the monarch announced in 2019 that she will now only wear faux.
