Norman Hartnell: The cross dressing secrets of the Queen’s ‘Miss Kitty’
BOOK OF THE WEEK NORMAN HARTNELL: THE BIOGRAPHY by Michael Pick (Zuleika £35, 528pp) The first chapter of this book is called ‘Crown & Sceptre’. As it’s the biography of Sir Norman Hartnell, the great dressmaker to three Queens (Mary and two Elizabeths), I thought ‘crown and sceptre’ must refer to the coronation items worn … Read more