That unseen (and beautiful) photo of Lady Diana

It was on August 31, 1997 when Lady Diana died at the age of 36 in a car accident in Paris. Twenty-five years have passed since then but the world continues to remember and celebrate the People’s Princess. And now everyone will be able to admire one of her own never seen before: a black and white portrait, beautifulin which the princess, immortalized in profile, it seems absorbed in her thoughts. The shot was recovered from the acclaimed personal archive photographer David Bailey who made it thirty years agoto be precise in 1988. Of all the photos taken in that session and commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, it is the only one that has never been shown to the public. The photographer jealously kept it in his personal archive and only now has he decided to share it with the world. Starting today the portrait will be exhibited at Kensington Palaceas part of the exhibition Life Through a Royal Lens exhibitiontogether with other images that will tell the last two hundred years of the history of the royal family.

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When David Bailey portrayed Diana, the princess was at the peak of popularity. No one could have prophesied the tumultuous events to come. Unhappy marriage e “A little too crowded” (it causes Camilla Parker Bowles) between Carlo and Diana, celebrated in 1981, ended in a stormy divorce in 1996. The following year the princess lost her life. Diana she was not a saint, as many wanted to paint after his death. Indeed, if what was told by the future Queen Camilla of Cornwall is true, several times he would threaten his rival in love with death. But a car accident killed the princess at just 36, turning her into myth. Also because, as Lavinia Orefici, author of Diana. The People’s Princessin 36 years of life Diana has been everything: from the fairytale princess to the people’s princess, from the fashion icon to caring momfrom the darling of the needy to rebel of the house of Windsorfrom the unhappy wife to the planetary star “. And with his death 25 years ago “the myth of him continues to grow bigger because one can even dream of a fairy tale that who knows how it would have ended if it had gone differently”.

Pablo Larrain, director of the highly anticipated, defined it as a “tale in reverse” Spencerthe film with Kristen Stewart as Lady D (in Italian cinemas from 24 March). Now we have one more memory of that “reverse fairytale”: an unedited and beautiful photo of Diana taken thirty years ago.


Source: Vanity Fair

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