Rainbow Queen writer Sali Hughes on royal fashion

Pod Save The King

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News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Journalist and broadcaster Sali Hughes has admired the Queen since she was a little girl and has written a fabulous new book called Our Rainbow Queen. She met up with Daily Mirror fashion director Amber Graafland, a Pod Save The Queen regular - and as Amber is also a huge admirer of HRH they had a lot to talk about! They discuss the reasoning behind the Queen's iconic style choices and how colour has played such a huge role throughout her reign. From the neon outfit that she wore for her 90th birthday celebrations to her trusty Launer handbag, this week's Pod Save The Queen is a true celebration of our vibrant monarch's influential style. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pods save the Queen!
0:03.0	I am welcome to this week's edition of Pods save the Queen.
0:10.0	And we have a slightly different edition. and welcome to this week's edition of Pod Save the Queen.
0:13.2	Now we have a slightly different edition this week because firstly it's only me,
0:16.9	Russell's not here.
0:18.1	We're talking about fashion so he's very upset that he's not here because we all know
0:21.2	that he's been a fashion expert and Anne is very sad not to be here but I'm
0:25.3	going to be talking to author and broadcaster Sally Hughes who's just written a new book
0:30.0	called Our Rainbow Queen. Now I've been reading it for the last week and I have to say Sally I really really love it. I'm a huge fan of the Queen. Anybody who's ever read anything I've written will know that I'm a huge fan of the Queen. I love lots of things about her and I think
0:45.4	lots of the things actually that you've pinpointed in your book. So if you don't mind
0:49.6	what I would like to do is pick up on the points that you made in the beginning in your
0:54.3	intro to the book that really resonated with me. Firstly I'd like to say how much I
0:59.1	love it which I think I've said and I love the point that you make that it's quite outstanding that the Royal
1:05.2	family member that's least celebrated for her style really is the Queen and the fact that
1:09.6	you've pinpointed this in your book I think really really resonated with me. I mean can you
1:14.1	expand on that I don't want to just repeat what you said in your book so if I've
1:17.0	read it and made notes on it can you kind of explain that? Well I think that when we think of royal style, first and foremost people will think of
1:27.0	Princess Diana, and that's entirely fair enough.
1:30.6	She is the most famous royal clothes horse in modern history of course and that's fair enough and then we think of people like Megan and Kate and we think about the lovely frocks and we think of Megan at the British
1:44.7	Fashion Awards handing out the special award we think of Kate Middleton selling
1:49.6	out L K Bennett with one walkabout. You know we associate them with fashion but in fact when it comes to fashion the Queen probably has the most illustrious history.
2:01.0	She's inspired collections by Dolching Gabana, Richard Quinn, all her
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