The dress that Diana, Princess of Wales, wore on her wedding day with Prince Charles in 1981, has gone on display at Kensington Palace for the first time in 25 years.
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By AFP Published: Jun 03, 2021 04:48 PM
The wedding dress of Diana, princess of Wales, is seen on display at an exhibition in London on Wednesday. Photo: AFP Princess Diana s wedding dress for her 1981 marriage to Prince Charles was one of the best-kept secrets in fashion history.
The gown sparked such intense interest that young designers David and Elizabeth Emanuel locked the ivory silk dress, which had a 7.6-meter-long train, in a safe at night.
Plucked from obscurity for the commission of a lifetime, the pair even took to putting dummy bits of fabric in the studio s bins to throw anyone rummaging through them off the scent, according to an exhibition of royal fashion, including Diana s iconic dress, that opens on Thursday.
The Princess of Wales would refuse to wear hats while making official visits to meet children because “you can’t cuddle a child in a hat”, a curator at Kensington Palace has said. Diana regularly wore a blue floral dress during such visits that became known as her “caring dress” because she knew children liked the bright print. However, she would never wear the matching hat that was meant to go with the dress. Curator Claudia Acott Williams told.
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