Rare Photos Of Diana, The People’s Princess
During her tragically short lifetime, Diana, Princess of Wales was one of the most-photographed women in the world. So many pictures were taken of her that even the most ardent, devoted fans probably haven’t seen them all. In this collection of lesser-known photographs, Diana is shown in unguarded moments, seemingly unaware someone was even clicking the shutter button. These extraordinary photos show with such clarity why she was known as “The People’s Princess.”
A normal job
Diana was born into wealth, true, but she actually led a fairly normal life before marrying the future King Charles III — then heir to the throne — and becoming the Princess of Wales. She had normal jobs, too. She was a dance instructor briefly, a nanny, and a nursery assistant.
Diana once worked with the children at the Young England School in Pimlico, London. That was her last job before she became a royal and didn’t have a normal full-time job any more. The nursery is still associated with her today.
Diana in New Zealand
Diana and Charles toured Australia and New Zealand in 1983. Diana was a mere 21 years old at the time. It was her first tour abroad, so the royal family and indeed the whole world was watching her with bated breath.
But the princess didn’t disappoint. She won over virtually every single person she met on the tour, because she was so friendly and personable. This picture of her and a 16-year-old Maori dancer neatly sums up the effect she had.
Surprised Diana
This picture was taken a few days before the Palace announced Diana’s engagement to Charles. So she wasn’t actually a member of the royal family yet… but she was still very much held to be fair game by the paparazzi.
Diana would have a complicated, fraught relationship with the press for the rest of her life. She was happy to have fame, but she also hated the lack of privacy. And of course, the paparazzi were chasing her car on that awful night when she died.
Diana’s first pregnancy
As soon as Diana was married to Charles, it was expected that she would provide him with an heir. And by November 1981 her first pregnancy was announced, but it certainly wasn’t smooth sailing from there.
In January 1982 Diana suffered such bad mental-health issues that she threw herself down a staircase. Luckily, both she and the unborn baby escaped serious injury. This photo was taken a few months after that incident; although Diana is smiling here, she may not have been as happy as she looks.
Diana playing with William
This photo from 1985 takes us right inside Kensington Palace and all the way into the playroom Diana used for Prince William. He never forgot the moments they shared as mother and son and tried his best to carry on her legacy.
William spoke to a bereaved 14-year-old during a hospice visit in 2016 and touchingly told him, “Time makes it easier. I know how you feel. I still miss my mother every day, and it’s 20 years after she died.”
Off on honeymoon
This picture was taken during the honeymoon period for Charles and Diana — literally. They’d just had their big wedding, which virtually the entire world had seen, and it was time for a luxurious honeymoon cruise on the royal yacht Britannia.
Diana and Charles are both smiling in this photo: they seem happy and perhaps they really were in this moment. But check out that body language. It looks as though Charles is leaning towards Diana, but she’s leaning away as if trying to escape.
Diana and Liza
Did you know Diana once met Liza Minnelli? Now you do! The Princess of Wales and the famous entertainer met at the Langham Hilton Hotel in 1991 at the after-party for the movie Stepping Out. And it looks as though they found a rapport.
In fact they did more than just get along! Minnelli said once that she considered Diana a friend, and that the two of them would meet up every now and again and have lunch. But, as you can imagine, this was kept much more private.
On holiday
In August 1986 Diana and Charles took their young sons with them on a holiday to Majorca as guests of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain. Diana matched outfits with her boys and wore vertical stripes: she looked absolutely stunning.
Some royal experts think this might have been one of the few holidays Diana and Charles took together where both of them were genuinely happy. It probably helped that they were already friends with the Spanish royal family.
Diana and the nuns
This photo from 1992 shows Diana befriending an elderly nun at Mother Teresa’s Hospice in Calcutta. The trip would cement Diana’s position as an icon of charity and compassion the whole world over.
One of the photographers who followed Diana on that trip was Arthur Edwards of The Sun, and in 2017 he told the newspaper, “Diana went to each of [the patients] individually with one of the nuns to hand out food, and she was intent on not missing a single person. At the end, the nuns sang a hymn to her. It was very moving.”
Greeting the crowd
This photo is from one of Diana’s very first royal engagements: a trip to Wales in October 1981. It wasn’t an easy undertaking, since it also involved Diana’s first public speech, some of which had to be in Welsh. Yet she acquitted herself very well indeed.
In fact, it quickly became obvious on the trip that Diana’s popularity was outweighing that of Charles. Crowds shouted “We want Princess Di!” and the future King was a mere afterthought compared to her. Needless to say, that sowed seeds of resentment.
Royal fashion
Throughout her tenure as Princess of Wales, Diana was regarded as a global fashion icon: everything she wore, people wanted. Take this effortlessly stylish 1988 white-and-navy ensemble, for example. The suit was by Roland Klein and the hat by Philip Somerville.
To this day Diana is remembered for the massive impact she had on the fashion industry. But with her it wasn’t even all about the clothes; it was also about the attitude. She knew perfectly well that sometimes a person’s greatest accessory is a smile.
Diana and Harry at Thorpe Park
Diana adamantly refused to have her kids grow up behind palace walls. She took William and his brother Prince Harry out on day trips and adventures whenever she could, just like a normal non-royal mother.
During the early ’90s she would take her boys out to Britain’s famous Thorpe Park whenever the Easter holidays rolled around. And she would also make sure they didn’t receive any special treatment: the heir to the throne and his brother had to wait in line for rides just like all the other children.
Fun on a submarine
Diana visited the nuclear submarine HMS Trafalgar in 1986 and immediately dazzled everyone on board. She was bubbly, friendly, sweet, and, according to the media at the time, genuinely interested in the inner workings of the sub.
Strange as it may seem now, Diana stepping foot on the submarine was then considered a big win for gender equality in the armed forces. Perhaps her donning an officer’s hat for a photoshoot was a nod to this?
Happier times
There were photographers present to document all the happy moments as Charles and Diana honeymooned in Balmoral. They must have been pleased with this shot of Diana smiling as though she was the happiest person on Earth.
It’s possible that Diana really was happy at that point and it wasn’t just an act for the cameras. After all, even after the painful and high-profile divorce, she was adamant that she really was in love with Charles once upon a time.
Winter wonderland
Diana loved to ski, and one of her favorite places for a skiing holiday was Lech in Austria. That’s where this photograph was taken; she certainly looks happy to be there, despite the fact press photographers were following her every move.
Diana and her sons were constantly under siege in Lech despite the best efforts of staff to keep the paparazzi away. The only place they could really relax was in their eight-room apartment in the Hotel Arlberg.
Public displays of affection
You won’t see many pictures of Charles and Diana kissing. Not only was their relationship an extremely fraught one, but generally the royals don’t kiss or even hold hands in public much at all. This photo shows a rare exception: Diana kissing Charles as she gives him a polo award.
There’s not actually a rule against it, but royals reject the idea of PDAs because it’s held to be unprofessional in a working environment. Remember, whenever the royals are out among their subjects, they’re technically at work.
At home
This adorable shot from 1986 shows Diana, her boys, and their pet pony Smokey on the Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire. Yep, the two princes were among the luckiest kids in the world in that respect: they could ask for a pony and actually get one!
But Diana was determined that the young princes never became spoiled. She wanted them to understand how lucky they were. When William was still a child she had him accompany her to a homelessness charity. He’s the patron of that charity today.
Love to bits
When William came along, he was instantly the apple of Princess Diana’s eye. And William’s still saddened his mom never got a chance to be a grandmother, because he has no doubt she’d have been amazing at it.
“She’d love the children to bits, but she’d be an absolute nightmare,” William said wistfully in the 2017 documentary Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy. “She’d come in probably at bath time, cause an amazing amount of scene — bubbles everywhere, bathwater all over the place — and then leave.”
Thoughtful Diana
It’s very possible Diana didn’t know this photo was being taken. She was caught here in an unguarded moment, looking thoughtful and also rather sad, as she watched children play during a visit to the Molfetta Deaf School in 1985.
Diana absolutely loved children. She worked in childcare before marrying into the royal family, and she was the godmother to no fewer than 17 children, all of whom she made sure she remembered in her will.
Tanks a lot
You never think of Diana as being particularly associated with the military, but when she was a royal it was simply part of her job. In fact, starting in 1985 she was Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Hampshire Regiment, the soldiers she’s pictured with in this photo.
She visited the regiment in June 1988 and had a go at driving a tank. She looks a bit nervous about it, as most people would be, but she’s still smiling away under that helmet.
Terra Nullius
If you’ve seen the episode of The Crown titled “Terra Nullius” you’ll know all about the impact the 1983 Australia trip had on Diana. She did everything the royal family required of her and in return — according to the woman herself — she got a jealous husband.
This photo perfectly sums up the tensions of the tour. Charles is holding Diana’s hand, or her wrist at least, but Diana looks very uncomfortable and seems practically trying to twist away from him.
Chilled-out Diana
Diana’s life was full of difficulty, but there were of course still many moments of peace, calm, and happiness. This photo, snapped in 1981 at the Cheltenham Police H.Q. in Gloucestershire, seems to show one of them. Diana looks relaxed despite the presence of so many people and cameras.
You’ll note the string of pearls around Diana’s neck in this photograph. Diana absolutely loved pearls, and she wore them whenever she had the opportunity. Here, she’s matched them with one of her iconic bow dresses.
An affectionate gesture
Unlike other members of the royal family, Diana was happy with physical contact with the people she encountered on her walkabouts. Here she is touching the face of 91-year-old Nellie Corbett at the Lord Gage Center for Old People during a September 1990 visit.
You may notice Diana is wearing a beautiful gold bracelet on her wrist: that piece of jewelry eventually got passed down to Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. The now-estranged royal wore it while launching a new John Lewis clothing collection in September 2019.
Oops!
An unplanned moment caught on camera here. Diana is holding baby William, all ready for a photoshoot at Kensington Palace, but something’s gone a tiny bit wrong and she’s pulling a face that all parents will recognize and relate to.
Check out the great red-and-white outfit Diana is wearing in the pic. It’s very Christmassy, which is appropriate, because this photoshoot was done just before Christmas in December 1982. And didn’t red really suit Diana very well?
Diana and Raine
This 1997 image shows Diana at a private reception for the Aid Crisis Trust and Royal Marsden Hospital Cancer Fund. She’s wearing a very pretty light-blue dress by Catherine Walker as she holds her glass of wine. But who’s the woman she’s with?
That’s Raine, once Countess Raine Spencer, Diana’s stepmother. Diana disliked her as a child and reportedly nicknamed her “Acid Raine.” Yet as adults, the two actually became friends: reportedly, Diana grew to like Raine more than her own mother.
Drive you crazy
This fabulously silly picture is from 1985 during another Charles-and-Diana trip to Australia. They’re having a go at driving some cute play cars at a “Careful Cobber” children’s road safety center in Shepparton, watched by a large crowd of kids.
The photo is adorable, but it also highlights just how incompatible Diana and Charles truly were. Charles looks awkward and uncomfortable in his tiny car, but Diana, sitting with a child, seems as though she’s really enjoying herself.
Regal in a tiara
You may never have seen this Diana photograph before, but it’s a truly stunning one that definitely deserves to be on book covers. Diana looks thoroughly princess-like as she attends a banquet in Nova Scotia during a 1983 tour of Canada.
Perched upon her head is Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot tiara, a priceless piece of jewelry that’s been in the royal family for generations now. Mary had it made in 1913: it’s one of the most dazzling tiaras you’ll ever see.
Dress issues
Here, Diana and Charles get off the minibus at Uluru during their 1983 tour of Australia. They planned to climb the rock, though Diana’s smart white Benny Ong dress doesn’t look as though it would lend itself well to rock-climbing.
That turned out to very much be the case when the day’s main event got under way. Along with Charles, Diana did attempt to climb part of the famed formation, but she had to constantly fight to keep her dress from blowing open in front of countless cameras.
A moment of sorrow
This little-seen photograph of Diana was snapped before she became engaged to Charles, but he was involved all the same. The shot shows Diana at Ludlow Racecourse, where the prince had just come in second at the handicap steeplechase.
But perhaps there was another reason Diana looked so down, one far bigger than Charles losing at a horse race. That day was her first-ever public appearance with Charles, but another woman had come along with them: Charles’ future Queen Consort Camilla Parker Bowles.
Diana’s landmine legacy
There’s a very touching story behind this photo. This is Diana with Sandra Thijika, a 13-year-old landmine survivor, in Angola. Diana had campaigned relentlessly against landmines in the years before her death.
Harry returned to Angola in 2019 and met Thijika himself, who was now a mother with a daughter named after Diana. And the hospital where they had met was likewise being renamed to honor the former Princess of Wales. It’s now the Princess Diana Orthopaedic Center.
Charles and Diana
Look, it's Charles and Diana! No, not that Charles. This adorable photo shows Diana with her younger brother, Charles Spencer. Although the two seem to be having fun together in this photo, there was a lot of pressure on both of their shoulders. Diana, you see, was the third child and third daughter, and her parents were desperate to produce a male heir to the Spencer name.
"It was a dreadful time for my parents and probably the root of their divorce because I don't think they ever got over it," Charles later said. So as the youngest child and only male, Charles Spencer had high expectations to live up to.
Back to the start
On July 1 1961, Diana Frances Spencer was born. The daughter of Edward John Spencer, the Viscount Althorp, and Frances Ruth Burke Roche. In her pre-princess years, Diana wasn't only an older sister to Charles, though. Little Diana was the younger of two sisters. Here, in 1963, she was around two years old and had adorable chin-length blonde locks.
Those cute bangs across her forehead allowed the world to see her face, right down to her rosy red cheeks. Though given that this was long before she met Prince Charles and became a princess, the public probably weren’t paying her much attention anyway!
Trouble at home
By the late '60s, young Diana's timeless style was already taking shape — Even if she was only eight years old! Like most other girls her age, it looks like she enjoyed styling her locks into cutesy styles. No doubt a pleasant distraction from the troubles going on at home.
By 1969, Diana's parents had split, and her mother was on the verge of marrying a man named Peter Shand Kydd. It was a rocky time for the young Diana, and she later described her childhood as being "very unstable, the whole thing."
Smiling through
In the '70s, Diana and her siblings were forced to contend with a nasty custody battle between their divorced parents. Charles Spencer later said, "Our father was a quiet and constant source of love, but our mother wasn't cut out for maternity."
As a young girl, the future Princess of Wales' hair was very different from the cropped locks that made her a style icon in the 1980s and ’90s. Here, beneath a floppy black hat, we see her longest golden tresses, which stretched past her shoulders and collarbone. She looks practically unrecognizable!
The teenage years
If this photo tells us anything, it's that Diana must have used a nice-smelling shampoo! Scuffle, her pet pony, can't get enough of it. Of course, not even Lady Diana herself could avoid the awkwardness of her teenage years.
As a teenager, Diana seemingly couldn't decide on just one hobby. She swam, skied, took piano lessons, and played tennis, and yet she couldn't forget her childhood dream of becoming a ballerina. But at 5'10'', Diana was too tall to be seriously considered.
No diploma
Like most other teenagers, Diana’s life in the 1970s was a series of ups and downs. She struggled with school and exams, and even failed her O-levels twice, according to some accounts. She eventually left West Heath Girls’ School without a diploma. But in 1975, she inherited the title of “Lady” when her father took possession of the family’s Althorp estate to become Earl Spencer.
And if Diana was going to be a “Lady”, then she was going to have to learn how to act like one. So when she was 17, she attended a Swedish finishing school.
Tiara troubles
Wearing a tiara all day might sound like fun, but it definitely wasn’t smiles and rainbows for Diana. Her brother Charles told Entertainment Tonight in 2010 about how the precious jewelry affected her. “In the evening we all went to a semi-private party. She was there and she seemed incredibly relaxed and happy.” “Seemed” being the operative word!
“And I remember she had a cracking headache too because she wasn’t used to wearing a tiara all morning,” Charles continued. Is it even possible to get used to the feeling of a tiara on your head? The pains of being a princess!
Starting a new tradition
Charles and Diana honored Princess Victoria's old custom by appearing on the balcony on their wedding day, and in the process, they also started another tradition. While the couple forgot to kiss following their vows in St. Paul’s, they made up for it with a public smooch in front of the crowds gathered outside Buckingham Palace. The sweet moment was also an unusual public display of affection for the royals.
Naturally, the crowds below went nuts for the unexpected kiss! In the years since, Prince William and Kate Middleton have followed in their footsteps by sharing a kiss on the balcony after their wedding.
‘The Travolta dress’
“Because I knew that the world was watching, I thought that I really needed to give [Diana] certainty that I knew what to do,” Travolta continued. “I put my hand in the middle of her back, brought her hand down so that it wouldn’t be so high, and gave her the confidence that we would do just fine.” And it seemed to do the trick.
Travolta enjoyed the moment with Diana so much, in fact, that he described it as a high point of his career on Good Morning America. Appearing on the show to promote his movie Gotti in 2016, Travolta was asked what he’d most want to resurrect from the 1980s – and dancing with royalty was his reply.
A rare moment of happiness
Knowing what we know now about the rocky relationship between Diana and then-Prince Charles, it's refreshing to see a smile on both of their faces when in each other's company! Best of all, the smiles don't look manufactured. What we see here are two people having a grand ol' time on the dance floor. And of course, Diana managed to do so while looking absolutely radiant in a bright blue gown.
Also in typical Diana fashion, she's wearing a diamond and emerald choker like a headband instead of as a necklace. Here's the kicker: the choker was a gift from her mother-in-law, the Queen!
One bad moment
After Charles and Diana's “fairytale” wedding, the pair set out to tour the world as royal representatives of Britain. Photographers followed them wherever they went, eagerly snapping pictures of the exciting new couple. But one photo stood out — and for heartbreaking reasons. It was this image of Diana crying.
While the Australia tour was in full swing, photographer Ken Lennox, snapped the image of Diana weeping outside the Sydney Opera House. When the picture was released to the media, it had the caption, “The Princess of Wales pulls a funny face as a bouquet of flowers hits her on the head when thrown from the crowd into the car.” But according to Lennox himself, it was really an outpouring of emotion.
Di-mania
According to Diana’s biographer Andrew Morton, the prinecss hadn’t been looking forward to the Australia trip at all. He wrote in his article, “The newly minted royal was petrified of facing the crowds, meeting the countless dignitaries as well as the fabled royal ‘rat pack,’ the media circus who follow the royals around the globe.”
Morton told the New York Post, “Back in the privacy of her hotel room, [Diana] cried her eyes out, unable to handle the constant attention. She wanted to go home. She wanted to hide, overwhelmed by the size of the crowds in a nation gripped by Di-mania. But she survived.”
The lone black sheep
The princess is always going to be associated with sheep-print sweaters. Indeed, when pop star Harry Styles wore one in 2019, the Diana comparisons popped up immediately. There might have been a bleak message in the one she wore, though.
It showed a single black sheep among a load of white ones – indicating that Diana was dubbing herself the black sheep of the royal family.
Beside her boys
1995 was, to say the least, a turbulent year for Diana. Her marriage to Charles had completely broken down, and there were of course two children involved.
But for the Heads of State VE Remembrance Service in the U.K. capital, Diana got dressed up in a smart pale blue suit and pearls. And she even kissed Charles for the cameras.
Guest of honor at the V&A Museum
Here’s Diana in 1981 wearing a beautiful floaty lilac number by Bellville Sassoon. For those of you who don’t know, that’s the fashion house run by designers Belinda Bellville and David Sassoon. The princess was also apparently a big fan of theirs.
She’s attending an exhibition at the V&A Museum in this photo. But it wouldn’t be long before Diana’s Bellville Sassoon gowns became museum exhibits themselves.
The photo on the steps
This shot shows Diana on the steps of Highgrove House in 1986 – all clad in pink and white. Allegedly, Diana’s favorite color was pink, which makes a lot of sense considering how much she wore it.
But her mind was probably far from favorite colors when this photo was taken. By 1986 both Diana and Charles were reportedly miserable with each other and having affairs.
The dress that developed a friendship
For a trip to Germany in 1987, Diana packed another Catherine Walker dress – this one in a soft pink color. By this point, the designer and Diana had developed a friendship.
In 2002 Catherine told the Evening Standard newspaper, “We were both tall, both shy, both coming to terms with a new career and we had both seen our parents divorce in early childhood.” Together, they made a formidable fashion duo.
The lover’s knot tiara
Diana looked like a bride all over again in this 1985 dress by Murray Arbeid. She wore it to a state banquet in Washington D.C., and the presence of the Lover’s Knot Tiara just added to the, well, princess-ness of it all.
Unsurprisingly, the American tour was a massive success. With Diana becoming a firm favorite across the pond, too.
Headed off on Honeymoon
Before Diana and Charles left for their honeymoon in Gibraltar, the then loved-up Diana gave photographers a good look at the gorgeous outfit she was wearing to jet off in.
She had on a white floral silk dress by Donald Campbell, which was layered over a camisole in the appropriate color of royal blue. It was one of many dresses Diana took on the honeymoon – knowing the press would be watching.
Sparkling in spite of it all
One month before her untimely death, Diana attended a performance of Swan Lake in London. For the occasion, she wore a creation by Jacques Azagury.
Jacques Azagury’s website describes the stunning number as an “ice blue silk georgette shift dress.” She also had a clutch to hide her chest as she got out of the car – a well-established royal life hack.
First public appearance as a royal fiancé
Diana really rocked little black dresses. In 1981 for her first public appearance with Charles since getting engaged to him, she wore a – gasp! – strapless, plunging black gown to Goldsmith’s Hall in London.
Of course, there was an army of photographers there, plus Princess Grace of Monaco. Snaps of the event immediately established Diana as a fashion icon and the designers – Elizabeth and David Emanuel – as major players.
‘The revenge dress’
Diana's style evolution is shocking! It’s not every day you wear a dress so iconic it spawns the entire concept of “revenge dresses.” But that’s exactly what Diana did in 1994. She attended a party in a stunning off-the-shoulder Christina Stambolian gown just as her husband was confessing his infidelity on television.
The very next day, The Sun tabloid ran the headline “The Thrilla He Left to Woo Camilla” – above a pic of Diana in that dress. Suffice it to say, the LBD has gone down in history.
A wedding present with meaning
Diana wore this gorgeous turquoise dress created by the Emanuels during a visit to the Australian city of Melbourne in 1983. It sparkled underneath the spotlights, of which there were plenty.
And if you’re wondering about the headwear: that’s not actually technically a headband. It’s a choker – a wedding present from the late Queen, which Diana decided to wear in her hair instead.
Withholding a secret
Just like her future daughter-in-law Meghan Markle, Diana liked to push the envelope of royal fashion. This red lace Jan van Velden gown might put you in mind of some of Meghan’s daring sheer pieces.
Diana wore it during her first solo overseas visit in Norway, and as soon as she got back she announced she was pregnant with her second child.
'The Elvis dress’
One of Diana’s most popular outfits ever was nicknamed “the Elvis dress.” This was a white strapless Catherine Walker number absolutely covered in glittering pearls. It was ostentatious, and yet it looked fantastic on her.
Diana’s young son Prince William reportedly hated it, but the general public thought the exact opposite. Apparently, you can even get figurines of Diana in the dress!
On her wedding day
Diana’s wedding dress went down in history for obvious reasons. The luxurious Emanuel design was worth at least $115,000! The Emanuels also had a tiny horseshoe charm sewn into the dress for good luck, which we know now was all for naught.
Still, the dress has gone down in history as one of the most unforgettable wedding dresses ever...at least until her daughter-in-law walked down the aisle.
The newlyweds
Not everything between Charles and Diana was disastrous as they prepared for their wedding. According to Time magazine, the prince actually left a note for his bride-to-be before the event, and it was surprisingly heartfelt.
"I'm so proud of you," Charles wrote. "And when you come up I'll be there at the altar for you tomorrow." Charles also suggested how best to make it through the big day: “Just look 'em in the eye and knock 'em dead.”
Diana's dress dramas
Signs of the terrible stress Diana was under were evident long before the wedding. After the first fitting for her gown, she lost a lot of weight. The only solution was to sew the bride into her gown on the day she needed it most.
Later, it would become clear to all that Diana had an eating disorder. She was, in fact, bulimic. But that's not the only reason why the gown looked larger than life; it actually was an abnormally large gown, what with the taffeta, lace, and thousands of pearls.
A stolen moment
The couple was seen sharing a tender moment during the ceremony, as Charles seemingly whispered in Diana’s ear. We wonder what he said. "You look lovely"? "Don't forget to say 'I do'"? Or perhaps, "What's that stain on your dress?"
It’s been reported that the bride accidentally stained her instantly iconic wedding dress with her favorite perfume — Quelques Fleurs — on the big day. So she apparently covered the mark with her hand throughout her nuptials. Very clever, Di!
Wedding portrait
After Queen Elizabeth had a flower malfunction on her wedding day, she kicked off the practice of royal brides having two wedding posies. And Diana followed that example. “We made two bouquets. The first one had to be delivered at eight o’clock to Buckingham Palace,” David Longman, chosen florist for the big day, revealed to the Express in 2018.
“We had a police escort who took us all through the city to the palace. Then we came back, and by that time they had finished the second bouquet, and back we went again.”