Marie Claire has reported on the royal family’s affinity for wearing the color blue—it is basically Queen Camilla’s signature hue, and the Wales family of five is often coordinated in the color. (Once you see the pattern, you can’t unsee it.) It seems the bent towards blue goes back decades, as the late Queen Elizabeth (famous for wearing a rainbow of colors, usually bright and “can’t miss me” shades) also heavily leaned towards blue—especially for weddings.
In one of the most intriguing coincidences we’ve heard about lately, People uncovered that Her late Majesty donned blue to the weddings of her three oldest children: Princess Anne and Mark Phillips in 1973, Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981, and Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson in 1986. The color choice, the outlet reports, proved to be a “bad omen,” as the traditional something blue maybe didn’t work out for the best in this case—all three of those couples eventually divorced. The late Queen also sported blue at her younger sister Princess Margaret’s wedding to Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960 and, you guessed it, that marriage also ended in divorce.
