"Princess Elizabeth carried orchids into Westminster Abbey, but they do not appear in the wedding photographs... The... orchid bouquet she carried into Westminster Abbey, and carried out again, is not there. ... Longman's father, Martin, made the bouquet overnight in his shop in Ludgate Hill and delivered it personally to Elizabeth's apartment at Buckingham Palace on the morning of November 20, 1947. ... For Princess Diana's wedding... two identical bouquets because someone at the Palace remembered what had happened in 1947."
The free-flowing, all-white bouquet... made up of three kinds of British-grown orchids: cattleya, odontoglossum and cypripedium" URL : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/08/28/nosplit/ftflowers128.xml *************** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
