The papers were too polite to ask the question, but what was QE2 thinking when she chose the outfit for the Opera House bash?
It's no wonder she looked so pained in the press photos. The high heat and humidity of yesterday would have made the outfit unbearable.
An Australian Head of State would know better.

She was probably buggered from having to plant the tree the day before (in similar attire I might add).
Methinks some Lady of the Bedchamber's head will roll! For the rancid colour if nothing else.
It amused me to see Janet Howard succeeding so well in being a pale imitation of her Maj! Says it all really.
Sue, it does!