{"id":196875,"date":"2026-04-14T14:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196875\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:53:09","slug":"queen-elizabeths-later-in-life-style-was-inspired-by-jackie-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196875\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth\u2019s Later-in-Life Style Was Inspired by Jackie Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Long before there was the \u201cKate effect\u201d or the \u201cMeghan effect,\u201d there was the \u201cJackie effect.\u201d Just as the Princess of Wales and the Duchess of Sussex wield enormous economic impact with their clothing choices, so too, did Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. And as it turns out, the former first lady even inspired Queen Elizabeth\u2019s wardrobe in the 2000s.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the opening of a landmark exhibit at Buckingham Palace<\/a> showcasing the late Queen\u2019s fashions in honor of the centenary of her birth, dressmaker Stewart Parvin is opening up about designing clothes for the British monarch.<\/p>\n

In a wide-ranging interview with Bethan Holt in the Telegraph<\/a>, Parvin spoke about working with the Queen, and her deft use of fashion. \u201cIt\u2019s only my opinion, but I thought she was very interested in clothes on different levels, because one, it is how she\u2019s perceived, two, they\u2019re an intimate thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\""QueenTristan Fewings\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

A look at the exhibit highlight Queen Elizabeth\u2019s wardrobe. The similarities between her style and Jackie Kennedys are clear.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would look at the garments in daylight and in electric light. It\u2019s really important how they photograph in different lights,\u201d Parvin told Holt. \u201cYou also have to make clothes in which the Queen could get out of a carriage or get out of a car without any mishaps. When the Queen arrives, she\u2019s instantly on show. The clothes have to flow in a way that they look perfect all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe knew that if she was going to certain places, she was going to be on the front page of every newspaper, certainly in this country, possibly around the world. And those are images that last,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

Holt also notes that when the Queen\u2019s dresser and close confidant Angela Kelly initially approached Parvin in the early 2000s, she left Elizabeth II\u2019s name out the conversation entirely, saying only that \u201cshe was searching for a \u2018Jackie O\u2019 look for her VIP client.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was Angela\u2019s terminology, which threw me off, because they were reported not to have got on, but whether that\u2019s just The Crown, I\u2019m not sure,\u201d Parvin said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that Jackie was less-than-impressed with her 1961 dinner at Buckingham Palace, but The Crown heavily fictionalized<\/a> what happened during the meal\u2014and the relationship between Jackie and Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

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In my forthcoming book, The Kennedys and the Windsors<\/a> (out in June), I detail what really happened. Yes, Jackie had her critiques of both the royal residence and the royals themselves. As Cecil Beaton famously wrote, \u201cAbout dinner with the Queen last night [Jackie] said they were all tremendously kind and nice, but she was not impressed by the flowers, or the furnishings of the apartments at Buckingham Palace, or by the Queen\u2019s dark-blue tulle dress and shoulder straps, or her flat hairstyle.\u201d<\/p>\n

But beyond a snide remark about fashion, Jackie and the Queen were perfectly friendly, and had more in common than you might expect. They were two young mothers under the intense scrutiny of the public eye, two women with enormous influence and yet little real political power, and two passionate equestrians. When Jackie returned to the Palace the following year for a lunch with Queen, that was a primary topic of conversation: horses.<\/p>\n

\"KennedysBettmann\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip greet the Kennedys during their 1961 visit to Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s not entirely shocking that the Queen would be inspired by Jackie\u2019s style. Famously, later in life, Elizabeth II favored wearing vivid colors, reportedly following the motto: \u201cI have to be seen to be believed.\u201d<\/p>\n

And you can see Jackie\u2019s influence in the royal\u2019s wardrobe: the conservative, feminine silhouettes, the monochromatic looks, the ladylike accessories, and an awareness both that fashion can tell a story, and impact the success of an appearance.<\/p>\n

\"ThePool\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Queen Elizabeth at one of her final public appearances in June 2022.<\/p>\n

In the documentary The Queen at 90, Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, explained her mother-in-law’s penchant for vibrant looks. \u201cShe needs to stand out for people to be able to say \u2018I saw the Queen,\u2019\u201d Sophie said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon’t forget that when she turns up somewhere, the crowds are two, three, four, ten, 15 deep, and someone wants to be able to say they saw a bit of the Queen’s hat as she went past.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biography Robert Hardman even quoted the Queen once as saying, \u201cI can never wear beige because nobody will know who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Caroline Hallemann is the Digital Director at Town & Country, where she covers culture, society, and entertainment, as well as the British royal family, among a variety of other topics. Caroline is also the author of the forthcoming book, The Kennedys and the Windsors<\/a>, out in 2026. Prior to leading the digital team at T&C, she served as the brand’s Senior News Editor and Digital News Director, and has previously held positions at Travel + Leisure, DailyCandy, and Parenting Magazine. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband and their son, Tommy. You can find her on Instagram at the handle @challemann and on TikTok at @carolinehallemann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3 min read Long before there was the \u201cKate effect\u201d or the \u201cMeghan effect,\u201d there was the \u201cJackie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[78470,50892,567,78469,569,574,568,9,24,63,122,124,123,57015,78468,50891],"class_list":{"0":"post-196875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-collection-jackie-kennedy","9":"tag-collection-royal-family-news","10":"tag-content-type-news","11":"tag-contentid-cef42ecd-8a58-405a-b059-9b1a2458ed7e","12":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","13":"tag-hasproduct-true","14":"tag-locale-us","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-queens","19":"tag-queens-headlines","20":"tag-queens-news","21":"tag-read_time-4","22":"tag-shorttitle-jackie-o-inspired-the-queens-style","23":"tag-subsection-heritage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}