Once all dressed up, Yvonne’s family tried to convince her to join the parade of children out in the street: “There was a man and a bunch of children there who were waiting for me to join the parade, but I did not want to go.
She sewed those into the crown,” Yvonne described. They were not valuable, but they must’ve been fashion jewellery of the day. “She even put my grandmother’s jewellery around the crown to resemble the crown stones. She wore a crown of the same red velvet material as her dress, which Yvonne's mother made using cotton wool around the headband and covered the top with wire and silver paper. All down the front I had fur – I don’t know whether she knitted it or what – and I had a big white lovely collar and a satin sash, just like the Queen wore.” Yvonne treasures the photographs to this day that her mother took of her in her costume: “I had a white satin dress on and a red velvet cloak.
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