A new exhibition exploring the fashions worn by successive generations of women in the Royal Family will open at the Fashion Museum, Bath, on 3rd February 2018 and run until 28th April 2019.

Royal Women will be a ‘family tree’ exhibition looking at the clothes worn by Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret.

Wives and daughters, sisters and mothers; none of them were regnant, yet they all played a key role in the British monarchy. The exhibition will examine their sartorial lives, looking at each woman’s unique style, the role they played within the monarchy, and how that was reflected in their choice of dress.

The exhibition will feature exquisite items of dress from the Fashion Museum collection, as well as a major loan from the Royal Collection, generously lent by Her Majesty The Queen.

The exhibition curator, Elly Summers, said: “The Fashion Museum is one of the world’s great museum collections of historical fashionable dress, and we are immensely fortunate that amongst its treasures it includes dress

belonging to members of the Royal Family; we are equally fortunate in the loan of key pieces from the Royal Collection.”