The Wedding Dress That Told You Everything About the Marriage January 1981 A studio above a shop on Brook Street in Mayfair. Elizabeth Emanuel wraps a tape measure around the waist of a 19-year-old named Diana Spencer and writes down the number. By July, that number will be wrong. The dress will be too large,…
Why Diana Saw Through the Queen Mother Immediately February 24th, 1981. Lady Diana Spencer stands outside St. James’s Palace in thin winter light wearing a blue silk suit and smiles. She is 19 years old and has been formally engaged to the Prince of Wales for approximately 45 minutes. The cameras record everything. The slight…
Diana Used Her Jewels as Revenge The evening of June 29th, 1994, Kensington Gardens, London, a car pulls up outside the Serpentine Gallery and Diana, Princess of Wales, steps into a wall of flashbulbs. She is wearing a black off-the-shoulder cocktail dress, short, fitted, purchased from designer Christina Stambolon 3 years earlier and kept in…
The Queen Mother’s Behavior During Diana’s Funeral Was Only the Beginning September 6th, 1997. Westminster Abbey. Just after 11:00 in the morning. A coffin draped in the royal standard moves slowly down the nave, carried by eight Welsh guards. On top sit four white floral arrangements, including a wreath from Diana’s sons, and a letter…
Princess Margaret Said Diana Was ‘A Nuisance in Death’ — Her Mother Taught Her That On the morning of August 31st, 1997, Princess Margaret was sitting on a sunwarmed terrace in Tuscanyany, holding a glass of something pale and cold and not yet finished. The phone rang inside the villa. A staff member walked out…
The Queen Mother’s Behavior During Diana’s Funeral Was Noticed by Everyone She was 97 years old in the week the world fell apart. While Britain drowned in flowers, and a sea of grief swelled outside the palace gates, while a young queen was pressured to come south and bow her head and lower a flag,…
Audrey Hepburn Never Talked About Her — But Doris Brynner Was Always By Her Side There were no cameras, no red carpets, no salons, no waving crowds. Audrey Hepburn’s longest, deepest, most silent relationship did not begin on a film set, and did not end in an interview. It breathed every morning when two women…
THE MAN DIANA REALLY LOVED — It Wasn’t Charles or Dodi Diana was visiting the Royal Brmpton Hospital for what should have been a routine charity visit. As the patron of several heart charities, she often toured medical facilities, but this visit would change her life forever. Your royal highness, the hospital administrator said, “We’d…
THE PROMISE WILLIAM MADE TO DIANA — ‘I’ll Never Let Camilla Win’ August 31st, 1996, Kensington Palace, 11:47 p.m. 1 year before her death, Princess Diana sat on her bedroom floor with 14-year-old Prince William, surrounded by photo albums and memories of happier times. The divorce from Charles had just been finalized, and Diana was…
What REALLY Happened On Diana’s Wedding Night? On July 29th, 1981, an incredible 750 million people around the world tuned in to watch what was called the wedding of the century. It was the start of a modern fairy tale, a radiant and shy bride, a handsome prince, and a ceremony so magnificent, it truly…
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