Shortly before their wedding, the couple attended the Royal Academy's midsummer party. 'Each time she or Prince Charles leant forward to examine a Ruskin Spear, the crowd leant forward too', Bystander reported at the time. Such was the force of Lady Diana's polite upstaging of literally everyone else there.
Pearls 'ousted big baguettes, gold chains and silverware' at the Prince and 's wedding. But who wore them best? Diana herself. Her pearl choker, a '£20,000 wedding present from Charles', went perfectly with the 'cantaloupe-coloured costume' she wore from Bellville Sassoon as the couple left for their honeymoon.
Diana at in 1982. 'Because of her condition,' she arrived by car, joining the rest of the family once they'd got out of the Royal carriage. A memorable fashion moment, it was written at the time that 'Bystander would just like to say thank you to Diana - seen here arriving at a charity event at the Barbican - for always looking lovely.
That is all.' When the Prince and Princess of Wales visited the Reagans in Washington DC, the 'handsome' White House walkers 'guided each lady through the barrage of the press at the entrance.' Sadly, they missed out on the highlight: 'The spectacle of our future Queen .
' When Sarah Menzies married Charles Speke in Scotland, guests included Hambros, Rothschilds and the Princess of Wales (pictured here with former social editor, the Marchioness of Milford Haven), who, as ever 'cast her spell over the evening and had yet more swains wo.
