Lady Diana and the hats? Never when there are children

Did you know why Lady Diana he never wore the hat when did he go to schools or hospitals to visit children? And you know what is the reason why, on those occasions, she preferred to complete her look with costume jewelery showy?

Simple: as she herself explained to the designers who created her looks, the important hats did not allow her to easily embrace the children she met in these appointments, as we have seen them do a thousand times with transport (in the gallery above some of the moments most beautiful) and therefore preferred not to wear them.

The big necklaces, instead? They helped her to tune into the little ones she picked up. For them, in fact, playing with her bijoux was a reason for fun.

We have discovered these and other anecdotes thanks to the exhibition Royal Style in the Making, just inaugurated in Kensington Palace and which will continue until early June next year. A unique exhibition that tells the relationship between fashion and British monarchy and which analyzes, through clothes, sketches and stories, the symbolic power of each dress and how this has contributed to shaping the public image of the Royal House.

And the goodies to discover are many: did you know that, in addition to the most famous Revenge dress, of which we have already told you, there is also a Caring dress?
It is a brightly colored floral dress designed in 1988 by David Sassoon for Bellville Sassoon, which the Princess wore on several occasions and without a hat, for the reasons we have explained above.

Lady Diana's dress designed by David Sassoon for Bellville Sassoon
Lady Diana’s dress designed by David Sassoon for Bellville Sassoon

The first in the same year, when he went to Sao Paulo in Brazil, to visit Febem Hostel, the home for abandoned children, many of whom are HIV-positive. Another time in Nigeria, in 1990, al Lagos University Teaching Hospital and again, in 1992 in London, al The Lighthouse project for AIDS victims.

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A dress that made history, as Acott Williams, curator of Kensington Palace, tells Stuff “Lady Diana understood how what you were wearing could really convey warmth and this brightly colored floral dress was a really important piece in her work wardrobe “.

On display there will also be many other unique pieces from the Royals wardrobe: from the wedding dress of the Princess of Wales to that of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother of 1937, wife of King George VI.

Not to be missed!

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