On the death anniversary of the Princess Diana of Wales, the Internet is swarming with tributes. So we also put together some of Lady D’s most iconic moments.
With almost 2.5 billion people tuning in to watch her funeral 25 years ago, she remains a major figure in pop culture even today. To commemorate her individuality we compiled a list of some of her most iconic looks.
People’s Princess
Then British prime minister Tony Blair, was the first to introduce the term the ‘people’s princess’.
“You know how difficult things were for her from time to time, I’m sure we could only guess at, but the people everywhere — not just here in Britain, everywhere — they kept faith with Princess Diana,” Blair said. “They liked her, they loved her, they regarded her as one of the people. She was the ‘people’s princess.’ And that’s how she will stay, how she will remain, in our hearts and in our memories, forever.”
Not a Choker
On a visit to Australia in 1985, Lady D sparked a trend for headbands after she decided she wanted to wear her diamond-and-emerald choker as a headband.
The Travolta
Her newsworthy moment gliding across the ballroom in The White House with John Travolta had the dress relabeled as ‘The Travolta’.
Rebel Queen
Being a badass that only did things her way, despite the Royal Family’s rigid rules, you bet she rocked a pair of jeans. In her interview for BBC’s Panorama, she stated how she’d like to be recognized as the ‘queen of people’s heart’.
“I’d like to be a queen of people’s hearts, in people’s hearts,” she said.
Besides that, she spoke of her own affairs, her bulimia, and her attempts to take her own life due to the stress of rigid palace life and protocols. All reasons why she still rules our hearts today.
Sweats and Shorts
Princess Diana also attracted a lot of media attention through her fashion choices. This includes being the first royal to rock sweats and shorts before Kate Middleton.
Desi Diva
While she rocked shalwar kameez several times, this takes the cake by far. As she dons this white sherwani.
Revenge Dress
This Christina Stambolia dress was definitely ‘too sexy’ by palace standards, but that’s all everyone was talking about a day after Prince Charles admitted to adultery on television back in November 1994.
the best-selling tell-all book authored by Andrew Morton in 1992, or her 1995 interview with journalist Martin Bashir that recently saw the BBC being criticized for “falling short of high standards of integrity and transparency.”
The Philanthropist
Another reason she was beloved by the people is her empathy. Something not seen among aristocrats. Her bold decision to buck royal protocol by going gloveless and shaking the hand of an unidentified AIDS patient in 1987 might have caused many sneers at the palace, but Insider.com described it as ‘one of her finest humanitarian moments‘.
World’s Most Photographed Woman
Named after the ancient goddess of hunting, Lady Diana was definitely a brave soul. However, she was often swarmed almost hunted by the paparazzi. To the extent that evading these people led to her death in a car crash.
Princess Diana of Wales died at the age of 36 on August 31, 1997, in Paris together with her then partner, Dodi Al-Fayed.
The vehicle’s driver, Henri Paul also didn’t survive the crash. Only her bodyguard, Trevor Reese-Jones, survived the crash but with severe injuries.
