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unusual facts about cloth of gold



Elisabetta Querini

As such, on March 4, 1694, Elisabetta Querini appeared clad in a cloth of gold robe adorned with sable, with a white veil and corno ducale, (the version of ducal crown worn by the Doge and his wife) adorned with jewels, and a large diamond cross on her chest.


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Walter Buckmaster

It is of cloth of gold embroidered in rich silks with a figure of St Edward the Confessor holding a model of the Abbey which he built and a charter of foundation.