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Kate Middleton ‘Has Three Wedding Dresses Made’





The Daily Telegraph

If the design of her preferred bridal gown is leaked to the media, she will simply switch to plan b or plan c, and wear one of her “backup” dresses, according to a report on a respected fashion blog.

Sources close to Miss Middleton have repeatedly refused to comment on speculation about the identity of the designer, but one thing they are happy to confirm is that the future princess is absolutely determined that the dress design will remain top secret until the big day.

The fashion writer Anne Chertoff claimed yesterday that Jasper Conran, who designed the bridal gown worn by Lady Sarah Chatto, daughter of Princess Margaret, was the latest designer to be asked to make a dress for Miss Middleton.

Bruce Oldfield, who became an early front-runner for the commission after Miss Middleton’s mother and sister were seen at his London shop in January, also remains a possibility.

However Sarah Burton, of Alexander McQueen, is the current bookies’ favourite after Alexandra Shulman, the editor of Vogue, urged Miss Middleton to choose her when she was approached by St James’s Palace for advice.

Miss Chertoff wrote: “Miss Middleton has commissioned three wedding dresses from three different designers…(she) has two ‘backups’ should the designer of her chosen wedding dress be correctly leaked, in which case she’ll wear one of the others.”

Diana, Princess of Wales, had two identical dresses made by Emanuel, in case of a mishap, but dispensed with cloak-and-dagger tactics by announcing the identity of the designer (but not the design) well in advance of her wedding in 1981.

Commissioning three different dresses would leave Miss Middleton open to accusations of unnecessary extravagance, but there remains another, equally fiendish possibility: that royal aides have deliberately spread a false rumour to throw the media off the scent.

By planting the suggestion that multiple dresses have been made, Miss Middleton’s spin doctors would make newspapers nervous about running any potential scoop on the dress design, lest they be proved wrong.

A spokesman for St James’s Palace said: “We’re not going to comment on any speculation about the bridal gown or who might be making it.

“Miss Middleton is keen to keep one secret for the wedding day itself.”

Jasper Conran, a favourite of the Princess of Wales, said earlier this year that he would love to design Miss Middleton’s wedding dress, adding that he would “make Kate a very vision of England”.

A spokesman for the designer said: “If he’s been asked to do it, it’s news to me.”

Bruce Oldfield, who also designed clothes for the Princess of Wales, was unavailable for comment, while Sarah Burton claimed to have no knowledge of a royal commission when reports suggested she had been chosen last month.

Of course, like the doppelganger enlisted to impersonate the imprisoned king in Anthony Hope’s novel The Prisoner of Zenda, all three designers could merely be decoys, with the real couturier yet to be unmasked.

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