I had several Google news alerts come through on this story today, but it has left me scratching my head a little.

From The Times Online (with picture)

The christening gown worn by the future Queen Elizabeth I nearly 500 years ago has been discovered during a clear-out at a stately home.

The gown, left, was found at Sudeley Castle in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, recently the setting for Liz Hurley’s wedding. In the 1880s experts authenticated the garment, worn by Henry VIII’s daughter at her baptism at Greenwich in 1533, but it was then left in a box of textiles and forgotten.

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Another link from The Daily Express

The reason I’m kind of confused is that the articles make it sound as though the gown had been lost for quite some time, but I remember seeing it (or at least something labeled as “Queen Elizabeth’s christening gown”) when I visited the castle in 1998. Anyone else remember seeing it there at some point? I’m pretty sure I’ve got a picture of it in a book or a guidebook, so I’ll dig for that tonight.

Update:

I looked at my travel journal from 1998 and I did indeed write a little something about seeing the christening gown at Sudeley. I didn’t write much beyond how cool it was to see it! I also found a picture of it in “The Public and Private Worlds of Elizabeth I” by Susan Watkins and Mark Fiennes (published in 1998). I put a small scan of it here.