Who designed the wedding dress?

[Principessa]

To all CyrilSebastian started the thread....it was me and my ASD taking over currently...

[Gemsheal]

Many threads are started but who knew this one could be so yummy?  🌹

[Duchess of Verona]

Princess Marie of Liechtenstein (née Princess Marie Isabelle Marguerite Anne Geneviève of Orléans)(3 January 1959) is the eldest daughter and child of Prince Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France and his former wife Duchess Marie Thérèse of Württemberg. She is the wife of Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein, a great-grandson of Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein.

While on work assignment in Rio de Janeiro in September 1988, Marie attended a dinner hosted by Princess Isabel of Brazil (born 1944), where she met their mutual cousin Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein. Fifth cousins as great-great-great grandchildren of Maximilian I of Bavaria, both also descend from France's "Citizen-King", Louis Philippe d'Orléans. Marie and Gundakar encountered each other again in November 1988 at the wedding of two more mutual cousins, Duchess Mathilde of Wurttemberg and the Hereditary Count Erich von Waldburg-Zeil. More meetings in Europe followed. On 11 February 1989 the couple were received by Marie's paternal grandfather, Monseigneur the Count of Paris, at his Chantilly estate, after which the couple's betrothal was announced to the media (the fiancée's father had been informed of the engagement earlier that day by a hand-delivered letter written by Marie's mother, Marie Thérèse of Württemberg, Duchess of Montpensier.


The wedding date being set for 29 July 1989, the engagement initially triggered familial reconciliation. Although the Count of Clermont stated in a 12 May 1989 Point de Vue interview that it had been three years since he had seen Marie, he and his second wife, Michaela Cousino, had been welcomed for the first time to the home of his mother, the Countess of Paris, that day: Clermont further acknowledged to the press that, Marie having written to invite him to her wedding, he looked forward to conducting her to the altar, rumours to the contrary notwithstanding. At the engagement party held the next day at the Palais Pallavicini, the Vienna home of the fiancé's parents, photographs were taken, and would later be published, showing Clermont speaking cordially with his daughter, sons, former wife and future son-in-law.

However, it was on this occasion that Clermont learned that he would not be escorting Marie to her bridesgroom during the wedding.Meanwhile, the Duchess of Montpensier had sent out invitations to the wedding in her name alone, omitting not only mention of Marie's father, but also of the Count of Paris, the head of the dynasty who, until then, had largely sided with the Duchess de Montpensier in opposition to the dissolution of his son's first marriage. Moreover, the duchess had also rebuffed Monseigneur's offers to host the wedding at the Chapelle royale de Dreux or to commission the wedding gown from a major French haute couturier.

These decisions prompted father and son to join in calling for a familial boycott of the nuptials. Her grandfather reportedly called the decision "treason", as tradition dictated that a French princess of the Blood Royal weds in France unless the groom is the ruler or heir apparent of a foreign realm.


This was the first marriage of a member of the House of Orléans into a reigning dynasty since the 1929 wedding of Princess Françoise of Orléans to Prince Christopher of Greece. Gundakar is a third cousin of his sovereign, Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein, and is in the line of succession to that principality's throne

I have been looking and searching, but haven't found the designer of the dress yet.





Sources:
https://royalwatcherblog....cess-marie-dorleans-1989/
https://en.wikipedia.org/...f_Liechtenstein_(b._1959)

Perhaps the designer is in hiding?

[Lady Liebe]

To all CyrilSebastian started the thread....it was me and my ASD taking over currently...

Let's just call it a marvelous collaboration!

Thank you to both Cyril and Princi. 

[Principessa]

To all CyrilSebastian started the thread....it was me and my ASD taking over currently...

Let's just call it a marvelous collaboration!

Thank you to both Cyril and Princi. 

Thank you 

[Principessa]

Princess Marie of Liechtenstein (née Princess Marie Isabelle Marguerite Anne Geneviève of Orléans)(3 January 1959) is the eldest daughter and child of Prince Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France and his former wife Duchess Marie Thérèse of Württemberg. She is the wife of Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein, a great-grandson of Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein.

While on work assignment in Rio de Janeiro in September 1988, Marie attended a dinner hosted by Princess Isabel of Brazil (born 1944), where she met their mutual cousin Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein. Fifth cousins as great-great-great grandchildren of Maximilian I of Bavaria, both also descend from France's "Citizen-King", Louis Philippe d'Orléans. Marie and Gundakar encountered each other again in November 1988 at the wedding of two more mutual cousins, Duchess Mathilde of Wurttemberg and the Hereditary Count Erich von Waldburg-Zeil. More meetings in Europe followed. On 11 February 1989 the couple were received by Marie's paternal grandfather, Monseigneur the Count of Paris, at his Chantilly estate, after which the couple's betrothal was announced to the media (the fiancée's father had been informed of the engagement earlier that day by a hand-delivered letter written by Marie's mother, Marie Thérèse of Württemberg, Duchess of Montpensier.


The wedding date being set for 29 July 1989, the engagement initially triggered familial reconciliation. Although the Count of Clermont stated in a 12 May 1989 Point de Vue interview that it had been three years since he had seen Marie, he and his second wife, Michaela Cousino, had been welcomed for the first time to the home of his mother, the Countess of Paris, that day: Clermont further acknowledged to the press that, Marie having written to invite him to her wedding, he looked forward to conducting her to the altar, rumours to the contrary notwithstanding. At the engagement party held the next day at the Palais Pallavicini, the Vienna home of the fiancé's parents, photographs were taken, and would later be published, showing Clermont speaking cordially with his daughter, sons, former wife and future son-in-law.

However, it was on this occasion that Clermont learned that he would not be escorting Marie to her bridesgroom during the wedding.Meanwhile, the Duchess of Montpensier had sent out invitations to the wedding in her name alone, omitting not only mention of Marie's father, but also of the Count of Paris, the head of the dynasty who, until then, had largely sided with the Duchess de Montpensier in opposition to the dissolution of his son's first marriage. Moreover, the duchess had also rebuffed Monseigneur's offers to host the wedding at the Chapelle royale de Dreux or to commission the wedding gown from a major French haute couturier.

These decisions prompted father and son to join in calling for a familial boycott of the nuptials. Her grandfather reportedly called the decision "treason", as tradition dictated that a French princess of the Blood Royal weds in France unless the groom is the ruler or heir apparent of a foreign realm.


This was the first marriage of a member of the House of Orléans into a reigning dynasty since the 1929 wedding of Princess Françoise of Orléans to Prince Christopher of Greece. Gundakar is a third cousin of his sovereign, Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein, and is in the line of succession to that principality's throne

I have been looking and searching, but haven't found the designer of the dress yet.





Sources:
https://royalwatcherblog....cess-marie-dorleans-1989/
https://en.wikipedia.org/...f_Liechtenstein_(b._1959)

Perhaps the designer is in hiding?

  Well there are even worse dresses than this one

[Principessa]

Princess Anne Marguerite Brigitte Marie d'Orléans ( 4 December 1938) She is the third daughter and fifth child of Henri, Count of Paris, Orléanist claimant to the defunct French throne, and his wife Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza. Princess Anne became romantically involved with Prince Carlos, Duke of Noto, son and heir of Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, whom she had known since childhood, at the wedding of the future King Juan Carlos I of Spain and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark in Athens in 1962 The Count of Paris initially withheld his consent to the match as he supported the claim of Prince Ranieri, Duke of Castro to the defunct throne of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Eventually, after years of waiting and the death of Prince Carlos's father, the Count of Paris relented and the engagement was announced. On 11 May 1965, the couple was married in a civil ceremony in Louveciennes. The following day, on 12 May, the religious marriage was held at the Chapelle royale de Dreux, the traditional marriage and burial place of the House of Orléans. They remained married for 50 years until the Duke's death on 5 October 2015.


The bride wore a Balmain silk gown of Lyonnaise lace, embroidered with fleur-de-lis, a symbol of the Capetian dynasty

[Principessa]

Princess Diane Françoise Maria da Gloria d'Orléans (24 March 1940) is the fourth daughter and sixth child of the Orléanist claimant to the French throne, Henri, Count of Paris, and his wife, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza. At the time of her birth, as a claimant to the throne, her father was banned from living in France. Thus, she was born in her mother's native Brazil. In 1950, the ban was lifted and the family moved to France.

In 1956, on a cruise organized by Queen Frederica of Greece, Princess Diane met Duke Carl of Württemberg, son and heir of Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg and his wife, Archduchess Rosa of Austria. In 1957, her brother, Prince Henri, married Carl's sister, Duchess Marie-Thérèse of Württemberg.On 21 July 1960, she married Duke Carl at Altshausen.

Princess Diane wore a Dior gown designed by Yves Saint Laurent


https://myroyalty.skyrock...f-Orleans-Duchess-of.html


https://royalwatcherblog....ss-diane-of-orleans-1960/

[Principessa]

Hélène Astrid Léopoldine Marie d'Orleans (17 September 1934) is the 2nd daughter and 3rd child of Orléanist claimant to the French throne, Henri, Count of Paris, and his wife, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza. First of the children of the Count of Paris to marry, Hélène married, civilly on January 16, 1957 in Louveciennes and religiously the next day in the royal chapel of Dreux, a Belgian aristocrat, Evrard de Limburg Stirum, born in Huldenberg, in Flemish Brabant, October 31, 1927.

The gown of Hélène was designed by Dior.

[fairy]

Gosh I adore this dress!


Hem, clearing throat!! and taking a stern voice:

Princi: how are we to reprimand you for again! indulging in your OCD, when you serve up such a treat?

[Principessa]

Isabelle Marie Laure Victoire d'Orleans (8 April 1932) is the eldest child and daughter of of Orléanist claimant to the French throne, Henri, Count of Paris, and his wife, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza.

She married Friedrich Karl, Count of Schönborn-Buchheim in 1964.

The bridegroom is the son of Count Georg of SchönbornBuchheim and the Countess Elisabeth, born Orssich de Slavetich.

According to The New York Times:

The 32‐year‐old Princess met Count Schönborn, who is 26, nine years ago in Vienna. She received her professional training as a social worker and a nurse there, as well as in Paris, Cambridge and New York, where she worked at Brooklyn's After Care Clinic.

Princess Isabelle wore a dress by Pierre Balmain of medieval inspiration and a capelike white gown hemmed in gold and silver. She was crowned by a diadem holding a small veil.

[Principessa]

Gosh I adore this dress!


Hem, clearing throat!! and taking a stern voice:

Princi: how are we to reprimand you for again! indulging in your OCD, when you serve up such a treat?

 

[Principessa]

Princess Claude of Orléans (Claude Marie Agnès Catherine)(11 December 1943) is a French princess of the House of Orléans. The ninth child and fifth daughter of Henri, Count of Paris, Orléanist claimant to the French throne, and his wife Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza.

While attending the wedding of Infante Juan Carlos of Spain and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark in May 1962 in Athens Princess Claude met her second cousin, Prince Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta.

On 22 July 1964 in Sintra (Portugal), Princess Claude married Prince Amedeo

The wedding had been planned for earlier in the month, but was rescheduled when King Umberto of Italy (godfather of the groom) was hospitalized for an abdominal operation.

A Savoy family council having met at King Umberto's residence in exile at Cimiez, France in the summer of 1963, another was held in London secretly at the king's hospital bedside to discuss the prospect of the king's only son Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, choosing to marry a commoner, Marina Doria, which had become the subject of much media speculation. In view of his illness, Amedeo's imminent marriage to a suitable princess, and his son's ongoing relationship with Doria, Umberto contemplated publicly abdicating (having left Italy for exile in 1946 pursuant to an anti-monarchy plebiscite, he had not formally renounced) and recognizing Amedeo as the successor to his claim to Italy's abolished throne. Present at this meeting, along with the princes Vittorio Emanuele and Amedeo, was Umberto's estranged consort, Queen Marie-José, whose objections dissuaded the king from issuing a declaration. Instead, Amedeo announced that he would postpone his wedding for the duration of Umberto's convalescence to ensure his presence at the nuptials, while Vittorio Emanuele issued a statement affirming that he remained his father's rightful heir and had no intention of marrying Marina Doria (nonetheless, he would do so, without his father's declared consent, in 1970). The wedding was attended by 300 guests, including King Umberto and the Prince and Princess of Spain. Two days later the newlyweds received a nuptial blessing during an audience with Pope Paul VI in the Vatican

Amedeo and Claude officially separated 20 July 1976, obtained a civil divorce 26 April 1982, and received an ecclesiastical annulment from the Roman Rota 8 January 1987. Amedeo was remarried later that year to Silvia Paternò di Spedalotto. Claude remarried twice: civilly on 27 April 1982 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti with Luigi Arnaldo La Cagnina (divorced in 1996) a television journalist in the United States and Canada, and both civilly and religiously with Enrico Gandolfi in 2006 in Oreno, Milan. Gandolfi died on 27 October 2015 in Laterina


Princess Claude wearing the Aosta knot and star tiara on her first wedding day. I am not quite certain who designed the dress of Princess Claude, but I guess House of Balmain.

[Principessa]

Princess Jeanne Chantal Alice Clothilde Marie d'Orleans (9 January 1946) is the 10th child and 6th (and youngest) daughter of Henri, Count of Paris, Orléanist claimant to the French throne, and his wife Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza.


She married on July 28, 1972 in the royal chapel of Dreux, Baron François-Xavier Claude Marie de Sambucy de Sorgue, (August 20, 1943), son of Baron Louis de Sambucy de Sorgue (1893-1989), and his wife, Charlotte de Queylar (1899-1996).

The origine / designer of her wedding dress is unknown to me.

[Principessa]

Duchess Marie-Thérèse of Württemberg (German: Marie Therese Nadejda Albertine Rosa Philippine Margarethe Christine Helene Josepha Martina Leopoldine Herzogin von Württemberg) (12 November 1934) known as the Duchess of Montpensier.

Marie Thérèse was the fifth child and fourth daughter of Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, and his second wife, Archduchess Rosa of Austria, Princess of Tuscany.

Marie Thérèse married Prince Henri, Count of Clermont, eldest son of Henri, Count of Paris, and his wife, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, on 5 July 1957 in Dreux, France. Three years later, her younger brother Carl, Duke of Württemberg, would marry Henri's younger sister, Princess Diane d'Orléans.


Marie Thérèse and Henri had five children


Marie Thérèse and Henri were legally separated on 23 February 1977, divorced on 3 February 1984, and the marriage was canonically annulled in March 2009. Upon her divorce from Prince Henri in 1984, she was given the title Duchess of Montpensier by her former father-in-law, as head of the Orléans dynasty

According to info on The Royalforums:

"....The Comte left his Wife and children in 1977 and then the marriage was judically separated and they where divorced inn 1984.He said he was pressured by his father in the marriage. Because of this he was disinherited by his father and given the lesser title Comte de Mortain. But around 1991 the reconciled and the late Comte de Paris gave Henri's second wife Micaela the Title Princesse de Joinville. His former daughter-in-law he had given the Title Duchess of Montpensier after the divorce....."


The tiara worn by the bride is the ‘Small’ Württemberg Diamond Tiara. As of now the designer of the dress is still unknown to me.





https://royalwatcherblog....rese-of-wurttemberg-1957/