Diana's gown wasn't actually white — and for good reason. Ivory enhanced Diana's pale, natural beauty.” As for the style's over-the-top, poofy silhouette, she told the publication that “inspiration came from everywhere.”
Her wedding gown barely fit in the royal coach.
Folding the fabric over and over to fit Diana into the carriage was what caused the wrinkles on her dress, designer Elizabeth Emanuel told the Daily Mail.
DIANA SPILLED PERFUME ON HER WEDDING GOWN
But according to her makeup artist, it almost wore her. Barbara Daly famously revealed that the young princess, then 20 years old, accidentally spilled some perfume on her dress as she tried to put some on her wrists after getting dressed in the world famous bridal gown.
The dress in question, known today as the Revenge Dress, was designed by Christina Stambolian for Princess Diana, who memorably wore the black number on June 29, 1994 to the Serpentine Gallery, the same night that Prince Charles admitted to his affair with Camilla Parker Bowles on national television.
Long before Kim Kardashian and her Marilyn Monroe dress walked the red carpet, Princess Diana actually attended the Met Gala in a dress that also caused a little but of controversy. Why? Because it was deemed quite revealing for a royal at the time, even though it was after she was divorced from Prince Charles.
The Princess also chose a statement diamond, pearl and sapphire choker. The choker was actually made from a sapphire brooch gifted to Diana for her 1981 wedding by the Queen Mother. One year later at The Ritz, Camilla showed up in an almost identical dark dress with bare shoulders.
“St. Paul's is enormous, huge – you couldn't do a low-key little gown,” David Emanuel told The Guardian. While researching royal wedding gowns, the couple “found out the largest royal train was twenty foot,” David told Today — so they set out to make one even longer.
The suit was Diana's favourite according to royal author Brian Hoey who, in 1997, said that she had even helped the Prince choose it. According to People at the time, he said: 'She preferred him in blue than in black or grey. It was a lovely, silent compliment to her.
According to the empirical evidence, Meghan Markle admires Lady Di. The Duchess of Sussex honored Princess Diana's memory by using the same outfits that the late princess wore at the time. Prince Harry's wife paid tribute to her late mother-in-law on up to ten occasions over the years.
In wearing the revenge dress, Diana not only acknowledged the pain she must have felt while Charles' infidelity played out in public, but also kept an eye toward reclaiming her power and her future. It was a moment of claiming agency for herself by way of a little black dress.
Perhaps serendipitously, bluebell is also a fragrance note favoured by Harry's wife, Meghan Markle.
The late Princess of Wales wore Houbiquant's Quelques Fleurs, a sumptuous blend of tuberose, jasmine, lily of the valley, and rose to marry Prince Charles. In his memoir, Spare, Prince Harry also revealed his mother's favorite scent—First by Van Cleef & Arpels.
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.
Margaret chose not to bow her head in respect. Instead, she gave a lazy salute to the casket. that has been compared to shooting away a fly.
The princess said that she confessed those doubts to her sisters but that they told her to go on with the event. She said they told her, "Your face is on the tea towels, so you're too late to chicken out." In the tapes, Diana said her wedding day was one of the worst days of her life.
The dress's 25-foot train was the longest in the history of royal wedding dresses, attached via a carefully crafted mechanism inside Diana's sweeping skirts. But the tulle veil attached to her tiara was actually longer than the train, at a super impressive 153 yards.
According to the source, Meghan's goal for the dress was for it to be "simple and elegant." In March, royal expert Katie Nicholl also told ET that Meghan didn't want to upstage her sister-in-law, Kate, when it came to her dress.
However, Princess Diana said that Camilla did not wear white, noting instead that the future queen consort donned a light gray for the occasion.
It was Diana! She said 'I just wanted to say thank you so much for the gown. I loved it. Prince Charles loved it.
Diana's coffin was carried on a military gun carriage and accompanied by a military guard, but there were no other military touches. As it passed St. James's Palace, where the coffin had rested in private all week, the cortege was joined by Charles, William, Harry, Spencer and the Duke of Edinburgh.
Queen Elizabeth II bowed to Princess Diana's casket in 1997 - The Washington Post.
The Queen bowed her head as a sign of respect to her late daughter-in-law, Princess Diana. As the Head of State, Her Majesty was under no obligation to bow to anyone, making the gesture even more poignant.
As with the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's coffins, Princess Diana's casket was also known to have been lined with lead, and reports at the time of her funeral in 1997 suggested her casket weighed up to 700lbs, or 50 stone.
Diana, Princess of Wales had 2,500 guests at her July 29, 1981 wedding to Prince Charles, but when the 20-year-old walked down the aisle of St. Paul's Cathedral with her father Earl Spencer, she looked for one specific person: Camilla Parker Bowles, her husband's former girlfriend — and later, his second wife.
Fittings of the dress posed difficulties because Diana had developed bulimia and dropped from a size 14 to a size 10 in the months leading up to the wedding. Even the seamstress was concerned about her weight loss and feared the dress might not fit as it should. The twenty-five-foot train posed problems.