The Styles desk wanted to explore the iconic imagery associated with Queen Elizabeth II and her seven decades on the throne in wake of her recent death. Various reporters, including myself, each contributed a separate element of the Queen’s iconic style. I spoke with several experts, as well as a hobbyist whose stick design was selected for the Queen, about the Queen’s use of a walking stick later in life and how it became an emblem of strength.
Queen Elizabeth: A Visual Dictionary
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Queen Elizabeth II was nothing if not steadfast in her devotion to her country and the style in which she chose to express it, but of all the consistent imagery she created throughout her long life, her carefully sculpted hairstyle might have been the most reliable of all … Vanessa Friedman
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“She told me she never felt dressed without her bag,” Gerald Bodmer said of Queen Elizabeth II. Mr. Bodmer, 90, is the chief executive of Launer, a British manufacturer of luxury leather goods favored by the queen for her most ever-present accessories: her handbags. (According to Town & Country, her first Launer bag was a gift from her mother decades ago.) … Madison Malone Kircher
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Peering over the wheel of a Land Rover, perhaps the make most closely associated with her reign, the queen offered a master class in loyalty to a quintessentially British brand as well as the occasional glimpse, through an untinted window, of her moments of independence … Callie Holtermann
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Last year, while attending a service at Westminster Abbey, Queen Elizabeth II used a walking stick publicly for the first time in 17 years. (She was last seen using a walking stick after having knee surgery in 2003.) … Isabella Paoletto