With a trousseau of five ever-more breathtaking dresses featuring yards of lace, silk and tulle, it was a wedding fit for a princess – the stuff of which fairytales are made.
And as Lady Kitty Spencer, 30, married retail millionaire Michael Lewis, 62, at a 17th century Italian castle on Saturday, it was a fairytale crafted by only the most stylish of artisans.
The bride – daughter of Earl Spencer and his first wife Victoria Lockwood and niece of Princess Diana – dazzled in a series of gowns made for her by fashion house Dolce & Gabbana, for whom she is a brand ambassador. The Italian duo also dressed many on her glittering guestlist.
Kitty’s main gown, with an intricate floral lace design, a high neck, long sleeves and puffed shoulders, was an echo of her mother’s own wedding dress.
However, she did not wear the distinctive Spencer diamond tiara sported by her mother at the 1989 ceremony, and most famously by her aunt Diana when she married Prince Charles in 1981.
