'I've never seen it before in a period drama. And that's what this was all about, creating images that you get to see now,” says hair and makeup designer Nic Collins.
“I am wearing lyonnaise silk encrusted with Indian sapphires working with an overlay of 200-year-old lace,” Charlotte retorts. “Apparently too much movement can cause the sapphires to shred the lace. If that were not enough, the gown sits atop a bespoke underpinning made of whalebone.
“Yes, whalebone, brother,” she adds a moment later as he stares back in astonishment, “The bones of whales. Whales died so I could look like this.” No whales, or their bones for that matter, were used in the actual creation of the gemmed bodice of the plush light blue gown the future queen wears in the scene, but co-costume designers Laura Frecon and Lyn Paolo did go to great lengths to pull off the ornate looks worn throughout the
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