I recently finished reading one magazine in which it mentioned Princess Mary's actions as first time done by a royal family member. It said Princess Mary (Countess of Harewood, daughter of King George V, thus an aunt of the Queen) was the first member of the royal family to lay her bridal flowers (on the war memorial at Westminster Abbey) following her wedding in 1922. After that, many royal brides laid their flower bouquets there. I thought it's interesting so I post the picture of Mary's flowers (as it said in that magazine, but I cannot find any such picture in Google Images or the Library of Congress newspaper collection) and also links to other royal bridal flowers. I checked the Queen's royal bridal flower left at the abbey in Google Images and it turned out the picture saying that was Mary's flower bouquet turned out to be the queen's own, instead, as you can see in the link for hers below.
MARY, PRINCESS ROYAL AND COUNTESS OF HAREWOOD (1922)
PRINCESS ELIZABETH (1947)
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a6/86/27/a68627cfeafbeccbba45fc2c6165ec37.jpg
PRINCESS DIANA (1981)
https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/c56f3/36892838.ece/AUTOCROP/w620/bpanews_2c997f7e-8192-46df-a372-7a95b9f05946_embedded29824966
THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE (2011)
https://www.westminster-abbey.org/media/4314/royal-wedding-bouquet.jpg?center=0.631578947368421,0.48&mode=crop&width=1200&rnd=132108610310000000
THE DUCHESS OF SUSSEX (2018)
https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5b02c756598a61507cadd8be/2:3/w_887,h_1331,c_limit/royal-flowers-good-cause.jpg
PRINCESS EUGENIE (2018)
https://i1.wp.com/rightroyalroundup.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2018-10-14-WA-Princess-Eugenie-Bouquet-Westminster-Abbey-2.jpg?fit=567%2C567&ssl=1
PRINCESS BEATRICE (2020)
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/or-colourably-similar-princess-beatrices-wedding-bouquet-in-news-photo-1595106770.jpg?crop=1xw:0.97752xh;center,top&resize=480:*
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