Orange is not an easy color to wear. Yet many queens and princesses dare to do it. Moderator Petra has made a nice overview of royals in orange evening dresses. Enjoy it!
Queen Máxima in a deep orange gala dress by Claes Iversen. Because the heavy brooch is pierced through Máxima’s bra strap, it hangs neatly.
For Chile’s state visit, Máxima purchases a two-piece combination from Natan. The set has been worn once so far. A contender for the annual diplomats’ dinner, where Máxima always wears a very old dress?
Also worn once: a brown-orange evening dress with halter top.
When the Sultan of Brunei visits the Netherlands in January 2011, he brings with him a number of rolls of silk as a gift. Queen Beatrix is happy with it and puts Sheila de Vries to work. The Amsterdam couturier designs a gown with a wide back from the shoulders. Beatrix wears the creation during the state visit to Brunei (January 2023).
Farah Diba Pahlavi, the former Empress of Iran, in a brown and orange formal gown at the wedding of Crown Prince Leka of Albania to Elia Zaharia in 2016.
Hereditary Grand Duchess Stephanie also dared to do it. She wore an orange gala dress at the wedding of Archduke Alexander of Austria to Countess Natacha Roumiantzeff-Pachkevitch in 2023. Archduke Alexander is the youngest son of Princess Marie-Astrid, a sister of Grand Duke Henri and therefore a cousin of Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume.
It will probably not surprise you that Queen Sonja of Norway also wore an orange gala skirt. With a floral jacket. She also wore the jacket with a sand-colored skirt.
Queen Sonja wore a coral red gown at the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria in 2010. Coral red is not orange of course, but the color leans towards it. That’s why I’m including this dress.
Crown Princess Victoria wears a gala dress with a large flower corsage at the shoulder during her father’s 50th anniversary. How beautiful it looks on her!
She would be a good candidate for the series ‘Unknown Royals’: Princess Marie Astrid of Liechtenstein. She is the daughter of Princess Margaretha of Luxembourg (sister of Grand Duke Henri) and Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein. Pictured below in an orange maxi dress during the wedding of her cousin Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg (2023).
Queen Silvia has worn a gala dress in an orange shade several times. In this portrait photo from 2012, she wore a warm orange dress made of jacquard fabric. Silvia also wore the dress during the
During the Nobel Prize laureates dinner in 2022, Queen Silvia wore a bright deep orange gown.
Her daughter-in-law, Princess Sofia, wore a bright orange and white skirt, paired with an orange top, at the same occasion.
Bright orange for Queen Rania.
Princess Anne in earlier years.
The then Crown Princess Mary during a New Year’s reception in 2013.
Princess Diana in a huge pompous black skirt with a bright orange jacket.
Máxima at the wedding of Princess Martha Louise and Ari Behn in 2002 in a floral lace gown in deep orange tones.
Orange muslin for Budget Day 2005.
Queen Mathilde during the state visit to Denmark in a beautiful orange dress.
The then Princess Mathilde in 2007 at Het Loo Palace, in connection with the celebration of the 40th birthday of the Prince of Orange.
