The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding Audiobook (Free)

Through the internationally bestselling writer of Somewhere in France comes an enthralling historical novel about one of the most famous wedding gowns of the twentieth century-Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gown-and the fascinating women who made it.

“Millions will pleasant this joyous event being a flash of color around the long road we must travel.”

-Sir Winston Churchill about the news of Princess Elizabeth’s forthcoming wedding ceremony

London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter season in living memory space, burdened by approximately The Gown: A Novel from the Royal Wedding ceremony onerous shortages and rationing, the folks of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation’s recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers in the famed Mayfair style home of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an improbable a friendly relationship, but their nascent hopes for a brighter potential are tested when they are selected for a once-in-a-lifetime honor: taking part in the creation of Princess Elizabeth’s bridal dress.

Toronto, 2016: Over fifty percent a hundred years later, Heather Mackenzie seeks to unravel the mystery of a set of embroidered bouquets, a legacy from her late grandmother. How do her beloved Nan, a female who hardly ever spoke of her aged lifestyle in Britain, arrive to obtain the precious embroideries that therefore closely resemble the motifs on the beautiful gown put on by Queen Elizabeth II at her wedding ceremony nearly seventy years before? And what was her Nan’s link with the celebrated textile designer and holocaust survivor Miriam Dassin?

USING THE Gown, Jennifer Robson takes us in the workrooms where probably one of the most famous wedding gowns in history was made. Balancing behind-the-scenes information having a sweeping family portrait of a culture left reeling by the calamitous costs of success, she introduces readers to three unforgettable heroines, their factors of view alternating and intersecting throughout its web pages, whose lives are woven together by the discomfort of success, the bonds of a friendly relationship, and the redemptive power of love.