{"id":311264,"date":"2026-08-01T00:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T00:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311264\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T00:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T00:22:16","slug":"the-tragic-incident-that-prompted-queen-elizabeth-to-revise-the-royal-dress-code-for-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311264\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tragic Incident That Prompted Queen Elizabeth to Revise the Royal Dress Code for Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paywall\">Thus, upon her arrival in London, Queen Elizabeth II did not immediately leave the plane. A black outfit was brought to her so she could change before appearing in public. Wearing a black coat with a black hat, she stepped onto the tarmac at Heathrow Airport, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/photos\/2015\/11\/winston-churchill-paintings\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Prime Minister Winston Churchill<\/a> was waiting for her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">This episode, as memorable as it was embarrassing, led to a lasting change in royal protocol. Since then, all members of the royal family have routinely packed a black outfit for their official trips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Furthermore, in 1992, this dress code was observed when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/topic\/princess-diana\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Princess Diana<\/a>\u2019s father, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2021\/06\/a-brief-history-of-princess-dianas-fiery-family\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lord Spencer<\/a>, passed away while she was in the Alps skiing with her then husband, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/topic\/prince-charles\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Prince Charles<\/a>. For the return trip, the royal couple was therefore, in keeping with tradition, dressed entirely in black.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Originally published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.fr\/article\/elizabeth-ii-changement-protocole-vestimentaire-deplacements-royaux\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vanity Fair France<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thus, upon her arrival in London, Queen Elizabeth II did not immediately leave the plane. A black outfit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[117717,10782,1242,5636,9,24,63,3994,1315,122,124,123,4259,20081],"class_list":["post-311264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-diana-spencer","tag-digital_syndication","tag-fashion","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-prince-philip","tag-queen-elizabeth","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-royals","tag-winston-churchill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311264","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=311264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}