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As Prince William and Kate Middleton celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary, Newsweek looks at the most famous wedding dress of its day.

Like the queen for her coronation dress, Kate had the floral emblems of the four nations of the United Kingdom represented in lace on her wedding dress. After becoming disturbed during the detour the expanse of fabric fanned out and righted itself due to the shape of its cut panels. As such, royal brides make a respectful detour around the grave marker and later send their wedding bouquets to be placed on top of it, a tradition started by the queen's mother whose brother died in World War One. Since her wedding day in 1956, the Oscar winning actress' wedding dress has become one of the most referenced and enduring gowns of all time. It was perhaps then a strange choice for Kate to give such a classic and conservative commission to McQueen but under the leadership of Burton the house had become far more aligned with her sense of style. Miss Middleton wished for her dress to combine tradition and modernity with the artistic vision that characterises Alexander McQueen's work.