Over 40 years after Diana walked down the aisle, her wedding dress is owned by her sons Prince William and Prince Harry.
Diana's wedding dress was displayed for a while at Althorp House, where she is buried, and it went on tour for a few years during the Diana: A Celebration exhibit, though it generally wasn't part of the displays for long. However, it is now privately owned by her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry.
Designed by husband-and-wife team David and Elizabeth Emanuel, the ivory taffeta gown was intricately embroidered with sequins, frilled lace, and 10,000 pearls, and valued at an estimated $115,000.
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Prior to the infamous car crash in 1997, Princess Diana organized a charity auction with the auction company, Christie's, in which she donated 79 of her dresses to be sold. Typical of her celebrated selfless character, the $3.25 million dollars raised went to AIDs and cancer organizations.
After the princess' death, most of her personal jewelry was inherited by her two sons Princes William and Harry, with pieces loaned to her during her lifetime being returned to Queen Elizabeth II, where they are most likely to have been inherited by King Charles in 2022.
"She abandoned the royal protocol of wearing gloves because she liked to hold hands when visiting people or shake hands and have direct contact," Eleri Lynn, the curator of an exhibit on Diana's style, previously told PEOPLE. "She also stopped wearing hats because she said, 'You can't cuddle a child in a hat. ' "
The late princess continued to wear her engagement ring even after she and Prince Charles divorced in 1996. After her death, Prince William inherited the sapphire sparkler, eventually using it to propose to Kate Middleton in 2010.
Despite Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles' dating history, she still made the royal wedding's guest list — likely due to her husband Andrew Parker Bowles' role as the Commanding Officer of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment.
Diana's gown wasn't actually white — and for good reason.
The dress' ivory shade “was so flattering to her English rose complexion,” Elizabeth Emanuel told the Daily Mail. “I find that white lace tends to look cheap. Ivory enhanced Diana's pale, natural beauty.”
While Harry and William were the chief heirs of Diana's estate, the People's Princess' will also listed others whom she wanted to share her wealth, including her butler, Paul Burrell, as well as 17 of her godchildren, according to Worthy.
5. Duchess of Sussex. Meghan Markle's wedding dress is estimated to have cost £110,000, and the Duchess of Sussex paid for it herself.
The now iconic ring features a 12-karat oval Ceylon sapphire set in 18-karat white gold and is surrounded by 14 solitaire diamonds. When Charles proposed to Diana in 1981, the piece was valued at $37,500.
Camilla Parker-Bowles went to the races wearing a brooch given to her by her husband - which he had previously given to Diana, Princess of Wales. The diamond Prince of Wales feathers brooch was modified by Diana to be worn as a necklace. Find this Pin and more on Queen Camilla by Maureen Hart.
The tiara was inherited by Diana's father John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer in the mid seventies and, as such, remains in the Spencer family. But while Kate may not inherit the famous diadem, it seems it will one day be given to her daughter, Princess Charlotte.
It was worn for the first time to a 1994 dinner at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. The garment has been interpreted as having been worn by Diana "in revenge" for the televised admission of adultery by her husband Charles, then Prince of Wales.
Camilla may have been at Diana's wedding but she was not welcome at her funeral, which was watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world. Still, to many her absence echoed around the ancient hall. The Queen made it clear to Charles that he could not take his paramour to the service.
According to royal writer Andrew Morton, the two women did in fact meet for lunch prior to the royal wedding.
While 750 million viewers from 74 countries reportedly tuned into Prince Charles and Lady Diana's 1981 nuptials, The Crown chose not to show the actual wedding (though we did get a brief glimpse at the Princess of Wales' iconic gown). Because, basically, they felt it already been done to perfection.
Apparently, when Diana died in 1997, Harry was allowed to select his favorite piece from their mom's jewelry collection—and he selected the sapphire engagement ring.
The Duchess of Sussex inherited some of her late mother-in-law's most stunning pieces. Before her tragic death, Princess Diana made it clear that she wanted her stunning collection of jewelry to go to her sons' future wives.
When Prince William proposed to Kate in 2010, he presented her with his late mother's sapphire and diamond engagement ring. Princess Kate has been sporting the stunning jewelry on her finger ever since — and during a visit to Wales on Thursday, the royal revealed that she did not have to get the ring resized.
As TIME pointed out, the royal family had been cool towards Diana even before her divorce from Charles, due to the attention she attracted from the tabloids. While the precise reasons for the coolness are “still ultimately a matter of speculation,” Lacey says, “there was no doubt it was there.
The former Kate Middleton wore the famous Cambridge Lover's Knot tiara, which once belonged to Prince William's late mother, Princess Diana.
She was wearing a black woolen long-sleeved cocktail dress by Catherine Walker that she had ordered only weeks before she died, and holding a set of rosary beads that were a gift from Mother Theresa.