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What Princess Anne Wore to the Royal Wedding

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From Town & Country

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Whether or not she intended it, Queen Elizabeth's daughter, Princess Anne, made quite a fashion statement earlier today at the royal wedding.

The 67-year-old, who is also known as the Princess Royal, wore a dress whose style one Twitter user compared to that of the late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.

The princess looked gorgeous in the crimson-and-blue dress, but with the artful waist-up crop it admittedly did resemble one of Hef's many robes (as Metro first pointed out).

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For the princess's own first wedding, to Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey on November 14, 1973, she wore a Tudor-style dress by Susan Small designer Maureen Baker that reportedly took inspiration from the court dresses of Elizabeth I.

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Princess Anne and Phillips went on to have two children, Peter and Zara Phillips. They divorced on April 23, 1992, and the princess married her second husband, Royal Navy Commander Timothy Laurence at the Church of Scotland in December 1992.

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Princess Anne previously made fashion news this year during the Commonwealth Day celebration after an eagle-eyed Twitter user pointed out that she had worn the same outfit nearly 40 years earlier at Royal Ascot.

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The elegant cream and navy coat looked just as stylish this past March as it did when she was photographed wearing it before-first at Royal Ascot in June 1980, then at the Epsom Derby in 1985, and again at Royal Ascot in 1990.

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Getting that much life out of a coat deserves some praise. We'll have to wait and see if the Princess Royal decides to wear today's ensemble again, too.

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