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Throughout history, the clothing of British royalty has influenced fashion tastes and trends. This series compiled from our archive explores contemporary royal fashion and its influence on what we wear today.

In this talk, cosmetics historian Madeline Marsh explores the history of makeup and how the monarchy has used it throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

Welcome to Queen Victoria's bedroom, not a phrase I ever imagined myself.

And today we are going to be talking about makeup monarchy and the rest of us

because you know where royalty lead we tend to follow I certainly remember how

back in the 80s there were suddenly lots of women running around with short

blunt haircuts and blue eyeliner and you look at so many young girls today,

endlessly long legs, endlessly long hair,

perfectly manicured eyebrows,

is a little generation of Princess Kate's.

Now, queens or commoners, we all know that

hair and makeup, it's part of our public place. And this is a lesson

we learned from childhood. When I was a kid, I was fascinated by my mother's expression,

oh, I've got to put a face on. Now, this was very geographically specific. I grew up in

Barnes, just south of the river.

If my mum was popping out to the local shops to do the shopping in Barnes Village,

ordinary place would do.

If she was going out at night, crossing Hammersmith Bridge,

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