Empress Catherine – (Mohamed Amin) Previous Next


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Date: 1977

Museum: Mohamed Amin Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya)

Technique: Photograph

Empress Catherine, wife of Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa, wearing a shimmering gold lame dress into which some 780,000 tiny pearls had been hand-sewn, at their coronation ceremony. Here, she is accompanied by eight maids of honor in fluffy white, pink and red dresses with large floppy hats, during the coronation ceremony. Also known as the

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