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She writes about how one day, while she was pillow-fighting with her cousins, her grandmother walked into the room and asked her to dress up for a wedding.

She said she had been able to get festive party outfits from charity shops – last year she picked up an elf dress for £3.99 and a sweater for her sausage dog Minnie.

Zara, who is engaged to partner Olly, says she also plans on buying her wedding dress second-hand.

It wasn’t until 1989 that a woman wore pants on the Senate floor, after a fed-up lawmaker defied the Capitol dress code on a cold day in Sacramento.

She wears a simple dark blue dress and her hands rest on her lap.