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Why did Queen Elizabeth do her own make-up for her coronation?

Queen Elizabeth II Elizabeth did not want her personal beauty consultant to put make-up on her face for the coronation, but asked her to go to Buckingham Palace early that morning “in case something went wrong.” Oscar Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland’s memoirs about his mother Thelma Holland (née Besant), a beautician to both the monarch… Read More »