Queen Elizabeth’s Barbie Image Celebrates 70 Years On The Throne
21 April 2022 |
10:37 am
Britain's Queen Elizabeth is being honoured with a Barbie doll image of her to hounour her Platinum Jubilee this year. Toymaker Mattel confirmed on Thursday the barbie image was commemorating the monarch's 70 years on the throne with a Tribute Collection Barbie doll. The barbie doll image is dressed in an ivory gown with a…
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth is being honoured with a Barbie doll image of her to hounour her Platinum Jubilee this year.
Toymaker Mattel confirmed on Thursday the barbie image was commemorating the monarch’s 70 years on the throne with a Tribute Collection Barbie doll.
The barbie doll image is dressed in an ivory gown with a blue sash adorned with miniature medallions and ribbons, a replicar of the Queens’s iconic look. The figure also has a tiara inspired by the one Elizabeth wore on her wedding day.
Queen Elizabeth, who turns 96 on Thursday, ascended the throne at the age of 25 when her father King George VI died on Feb. 6, 1952. Since then she has become the longest-ruling monarch in British history.
The doll will be sold in London stores Harrods, Selfridges and Hamleys ahead of the official Platinum Jubilee celebrations in early June.
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