Wedding dress of Catherine Middleton UK fabrics which had been specially sourced by Sarah Burton, with a long, full skirt designed to echo an opening flower, with soft pleats which unfolded to the floor, forming a Victorian-style semi-bustle at the back, and finishing in a short train measuring just under three metres in length. To partially fulfill the 'something blue' portion of the British wedding tradition, a blue ribbon was sewn inside the dress. The design for the bodice of the dress featuring lace in the style of the 19th century was the 'something old'. The British press showed considerable interest in the lace used
Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge Leeds: Hugh Lupton and Sir Charles Lupton who was Deputy Lieutenant of Yorkshire County (West Riding) when Princess Mary's father-in-law, the 5th Earl of Harewood, was his Lord Lieutenant. In 2018, Olive Middleton's great-granddaughter, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, stated that her patronage of the Nursing Now campaign meant a lot to her personally as both her great-grandmother, Olive Middleton, and grandmother, Valerie Middleton, were volunteer nurses. Michael Middleton's great grandfather - politician Francis Martineau Lupton - was the son of Francis Lupton, Esq., whose marriage to Frances Greenhow on 1 July 1847 is listed in "The Patrician" - John Burke's