Mrs.Barry is said to have given her audience a strong idea of Queen Elizabeth.

Mrs.Bellamy played Cleopatra in a silver tissue "birthday" dress that had belonged to the Princess of Wales; and a suit of straw-coloured satin, from the wardrobe of the same illustrious lady, was worn by the famous Mrs.
Woffington, in her performance of Roxana.

The robes worn by Elliston, when he personated George IV., and represented the coronation of that monarch upon the stage of Drury Lane, were probably not the originals.
These became subsequently the property of Madame Tussaud, and long remained among the treasures of her waxwork exhibition in Baker Street.

A tradition prevails that Elliston's robes were carried to America by Lucius Junius Booth, the actor, who long continued to assume them in his personation of Richard III., much to the astonishment of the more simple-minded of his audience, who naively inquired of each other whether the sovereigns of Great Britain were really wont to parade the streets of London in such attire?
Among other royal robes that have likewise descended to the stage, mention may also be made of the coronation dress of the late Queen Adelaide, of which Mrs.Mowatt, the American actress, became the ultimate possessor.
Many noblemen and fine gentlemen also favoured the actors with gifts of their cast clothes, and especially of those "birthday suits"-- Court dresses of great splendour, worn for the first time at the birthday levees, or drawing-rooms of the sovereign.

As Pope writes: Or when from Court a birthday suit bestowed, Sinks the lost actor in the tawdry load.
Indeed, to some of the clothes worn by actors a complete history is attached.