If you buy about fifty new outfits a year, one Ikea cupboard is of course not enough. Most queens therefore do not have a wardrobe, but a dressing room.
Have you ever watched l’Agence? This much-watched Netflix series follows a Parisian real estate family that operates in the higher segment. In addition to the most beautiful marbles, horse troughs, swimming pools and bathrooms, you will also come across walk-in rooms that the local H&M would be jealous of. Racks, drawers, shelves: there is a nice storage space for every fashion item.
If movie stars, actresses and successful entrepreneurs all have a walk-in closet at their disposal, queens and princesses will of course not be inferior. And don’t worry: they don’t either.
We got to see Rania’s walk-in closet on May 25, 2017, when the Jordanian court released photos of the fashionable preparations for the 71st Independence Day. In the images, the queen provides her daughter Salma with make-up. She also poses in the middle of her clothing room. In the background you see light wardrobes from floor to ceiling, chests of drawers for jewelry and embroidered evening dresses and of course a large mirror.
Mette-Marit’s wardrobe has a Scandinavian color palette. Read: light on light. As you can see in the photo below, hooks are attached to the corners of her cabinets. The clothes she will wear that day are hung on it. In the background you see an open cupboard. All kinds of storage options for accessories have been created under the hanging jackets and dresses.
You may remember the dress hanging on one of the hooks from the Luxembourg wedding in 2012.
Would you like to see the princess in action in her walk-in closet? You ask, we deliver.
In the photo above, the princess is discussing a light blue evening dress, which had just been altered for a new state portrait. Below you can see the original version (left) and the current one (right).
Only the snapshot below has been leaked of Mary’s walk-in closet. Next to a photo of a young Mary I also see a television hanging. Useful when curling her locks.
In the book ‘Dressing the Queen’, Queen Elizabeth’s walk-in closet is extensively depicted.
The white cabinets cover the entire space, from baseboard to ceiling. Fragile prom dresses are stored in drawers with tissue paper between them.
Everything in the cupboards is hung by color.
On to Soestdijk Palace, because I was recently in the walk-in closet of the princesses for a TV recording. The official clothing of Beatrix, Irene, Margriet and Christina was kept in one closet, which consists of two floors. The dresses were sorted by size. As soon as Irene had grown out of size X, Beatrix’s discarded clothes in size X+1 were already waiting for her.
The hats were kept in the cupboard on the left, there were racks for clothes and of course there were also special cupboards for shoes. Literally every corner was used. Do you want to know more? Then look back at the item from minute 59.
And last but not least we also take a look at Máxima. It is not known exactly how she stored her clothes. Or let me put it this way: there is no image that can be published. The cupboards are from baseboard to ceiling. The winter coats are now stored at the top and will of course be taken down again as the weather changes. The evening dresses are placed between tissue paper in a drawer, just like Queen Elizabeth’s.
We do have a picture of the clothing room at Villa Eikenhorst. Via the stolen video camera (2004) we have a snapshot of Máxima being dressed up in space, but that will of course not be posted here. That of Amalia, who wears the Mellerio diadem in her mother’s clothing room, does. That private photo was released on the occasion of her eighteenth birthday. In the background you see Máxima’s shoe racks, where the heels are stored per color and pair on transparent shelves. On the left you see the dressing table. When Máxima looked around the mirror, she saw the pond at the rear of Villa Eikenhorst. The cupboards where the clothes are stored are not on screen, but are dark and cover the space from baseboard to ceiling.
And we conclude with a quiz question. Just say it: Who owns the walk-in closet below?
