Queen Elizabeth II had command of a wide-ranging language of clothes. Roughly 200 items from her wardrobe, many never before publicly displayed, are now on view in “The Queen’s Style,” a blockbuster exhibition at the King’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace. “Among the most fascinating garments on display,” Rebecca Mead writes, “are those representing diplomatic dressing.” Her coronation gown, pictured here, bore embroidered emblems of the four nations of the United Kingdom—the English rose, the Scottish thistle, the Welsh leek, and the shamrock of Northern Ireland—as well as of representative plants from various Commonwealth nations, including a lotus flower for India and a jute plant for Pakistan. Read more about how the Queen used clothing to make powerful statements without saying a word: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/...