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A lot of problems! After the shock over King Charles’s worn-out sock, CHARLOTTE GRIFFITHS recalls how a torn glove on Prince William’s wedding day angered the late queen.
- The late queen had a large hole in her glove at Prince William’s wedding in 2011
- Thereafter, it was referred to internally as ‘Holegate’ and left the Queen ‘furious’.
- She kept an extra pair of gloves in her bag for every engagement after that.
King Charles might have drawn attention – and some jokes – after accidentally revealing a hole in his sock during a visit to a London mosque last week, but he’s not the first monarch to suffer a wardrobe malfunction.
However, when the late queen attended Prince William’s wedding with a gaping hole in her glove, she went completely unnoticed by the world, despite the eyes of 162 million viewers around the world focused on the event.
Only now can The Mail on Sunday reveal the mishap, with a royal stylist of the time admitting: “We got away with it.”
However, Her Majesty is said to have been mortified to discover the division while waving to the crowds from a carriage carrying her back to Buckingham Palace from Westminster Abbey.
This newspaper reviewed footage from the day to reveal that the hole, a stitching error on the middle finger of his left glove, was initially in full view.
Former royal hairstylist Bernard Connolly has revealed that the late Queen Elizabeth II had a hole in her glove while greeting the crowd at Prince William and Kate’s wedding in 2011.
A close-up reveals that there was a stitching error on the middle finger of the Queen’s left glove.
But later photographs from the day in April 2011 reveal that the Queen must have noticed it, and had begun to tactfully cover it with her right hand.
It is said that he was not very amused that none of his 20 assistants, led by Angela Kelly, noticed the lapse.
Hairstylist Bernard Connolly, who was working for the Queen at the time, told The Mail on Sunday: “How it wasn’t written at the time I’ll never know.”
‘The queen came out and greeted the world with a hole in her glove, can you imagine?
You don’t do that. You wouldn’t do it at a fashion show, or at a photo shoot, and you certainly wouldn’t do it to a monarch.
“It was not just any engagement, but the future king was getting married.”
There was fury in the Palace about it “even years” later, Connolly added. “It was referred to internally as ‘Holegate’.”
And he said that when it wasn’t reported, “we thought, ‘We got away with it.’
Sock and amazement: During Her Majesty’s visit to a mosque in Brick Lane, east London, where she followed the Islamic custom of removing shoes, a hole in her sock was clearly visible.
It was the only time the Queen was apparently really angry that no one had seen her before she left.
Apparently, she always kept “an extra pair of gloves in her bag for every engagement after that day.”
Speaking from her flat in Henley-on-Thames last week, Connolly, 58, a former stylist for Britain’s Next Top Model, also recalled how the Queen always insisted on wearing the same pair of plain black shoes, although she rarely They matched the sparkling costumes prepared by Ms. Kelly and her team.
The queen wore those damn black shoes with everything. She hated him. But those black shoes weren’t negotiable.
One exception was the cream-colored shoes she wore to William’s wedding to Connolly, saying, “She looked wonderful.”
Mrs Kelly was one of the Queen’s closest confidantes, but her circumstances are said to have been greatly reduced since Her Majesty’s death with rumors that she has been given little work and has been ‘frozen’ out of the circle. intimate.
Connolly, who also once dressed Princess Diana, was not swayed by the rumour, but said: “It would be very sad if it were true because she has a tremendous amount of knowledge.”
‘People like her, with that knowledge, that interest and that care, appear once in a blue moon.
‘Angela is still heartbroken over the Queen’s death. You can see it in her face.