Angela Kelly in her book "Dressing the Queen - The Jubilee Wardrobe" tells us that planning for this outfit began almost two year ahead of the event and inspiration was sought from the court costumes of the Elizabethan era, which were often richly jewelled on a white background. It was also important that the Queen would be easily seen among the red upholstery of the Royal barge.
The ensamble comprised dress, coat, hat and white cashmere pashmina with matching trim.
The coat, which had a pleated frill at the front and neck, was of ivory boucle, decorated with gold, silver and ivory embroidered dots and Swarovski crystals. The matching hat had a small cockade of feathers in gold, silver and ivory, each trimmed with a Crystal. The Jardine Star brooch completed the look:
Details of the outfit from Angela Kelly's book:
The dress alone was worn again on 5 June 2014, during the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's State visit to France, to attend a Queen's Birthday Garden Party hosted by Sir Peter Ricketts, Her Majesty's Ambassador to the French Republic. This time, a new floral brooch in various tones of gold and stone colours was selected:
Ambassador Sir Peter Ricketts with the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.
The outfit reappeared, worn with a new Angela Kelly hat in white straw trimmed with a large central bow in the same fabric as the coat and dress, on 24 June 2015, the second day of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's State visit to Germany (Daily Mail article here). The Queen wore again the multi-coloured floral brooch we'd first seen in Paris the last time this look was worn:
With German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
With German President Joachim Gauck.
Laying a wreath at Neue Wache Memorial.
On 4 December 2015, we got saw once again the dress worn on its own, for an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle. As is costumary for this type of events, it was impossible to get a clear look at the brooch HM was wearing:
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