I have a question that I just cannot seem to get an answer to , so of course I will post it here ! The mantle of the Order if the Thistle is a dark green velvet , why did the Pss Royal wear a mantle of a light green colour in 2022, her brother Charles wore the dark green mantle . ( her mantle at the Coronation was the dark green )...I have checked and double checked ( via the internet and my reference books ) and just cannot figure it out ! Can someone help ?
Reading this I became curious too and so I looked up some pictures; I wouldn’t call the Princess Royals’ robes light green but immediately I reckon that the shade/tone of green is not specified and that non-static lighting conditions, age of the individual robes, variations in storage/care/treatment, and maybe differences in the manufacture or batch/lot of the velvet all account for differences we see.
I have a gorgeous tiled bathroom from the early 1900s… a small handful of the tiles have been replaced at some point in the intervening century and beyond; they match in size and quality of detail… but the shades of the glaze are just noticeably mismatched!
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