Mary’s 1922 dress was white and silver. The embroidery consisted of seed pearls, baroque pearls and tiny diamonds. The train was woven at the Braintree Mills and was 20,000 threads wide. On either side of the train was Honiton lace designed to reflect “Britain’s position as ruler of a vast empire” embroidered in silver thread and seed pearls with the rose, shamrock, thistle, daffodil, the lotus of India, the maple of Canada, the wattle of Austrialia and the fern of New Zealand. Part of the wedding veil lace was said to have belonged to Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII’s first wife, and her mother and grandmother had worn it before her.