Detail of embroidery on The Queen's Coronation dress
	Detail of embroidery on The Queen's Coronation dress. Made by Norman Hartnell, the dress featured embroidered floral emblems from all parts of the United Kingdom and the then Commonwealth. These included roses, leeks, thistles, shamrocks, maple leafs, wattle flowers and ferns. The Queen also wore the dress at the openings of Parliament in New Zealand (1954), Australia (1954), Ceylon (1954) and Canada (1957) The Royal Collection © 2003, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II