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One of the greatest ironies onPrincess dianalife is that despite being themost famous woman in the world, Few people really knew she. From the moment "Shy Di" made its first appearance alongsidePrince Charles At the last days of the princess of reinventing after his litigation divorce, the world looked at following and analyzing everything she did, said, and wore.

But the true Diana has not been the princess orfashion iconShe was a warm woman, caring with insecurities, manias, and a sense of humor. That's why, to celebrate his birthday on July 1, we have rounded the fascinating facts about Princess Diana that only his nearest friends knew.

In the first days, like Diana was still learning to sail in theRoyal dress codeThe women in his former social circle sometimes imply his outfits were too light. And while the comments of the princess came with his own lapidary denigning that she calls privately his most admitted criticisms.

"She said, 'Oh, these velvet headbands are again, when she would discover something that had been said or written about her designerBruce Oldfield revealed when I interviewed it for my book,Diana: the secrets of his style. Diana invented the expression referring to women whose fagotated style often included theHair accessory not up to date. (Irony, they come back to fashion again with the help ofKate Middleton) "They were cultivated women who still dressed as schoolgirls," he said. "They never changed. Diana had become a beautiful elegant princess and threatened them. »

Diana was an excellent swimmer and diver and loved doing lengths in the poolThe Buckingham Palace Every morning during his marriage with Prince Charles. "She stopped swimming at the palace when the divorce negotiations dragged, a friend told me. "She did not want to run in the queen orDuke of EdinburghShe ceased to go. From there, she swamped in the pools in the land of her houses every time she could.

Unlike the proposals of his sons,Prince WilliamandPrince Harry-Who were intimate and romantic Diana was a much more formal affair. Immediately after Charles's proposal, Diana was presented with a plateau of eight engagement rings of Garrard, the jeweler crown. The emblematic engagement ring was not even a creation⁠-it had already been tailor-made in the jeweler's catalog for $ 37,000.

"The princess told me [the ring] stands out among others because he was the biggest ring offer," a friend told me. "She learned to love really. »

When Diana engaged in Charles and the photo call was planned, she did not have a suit. She and her mother,Frances Shand KyddHarrods went to Harrods and bought an off-the-rack Pernche blue costume by Cojana. Eager to look respectful, Diana had the puzzled skirt of the misered ill-fitted suit.

WhenPrincess Grace From Monaco died at 52 in 1982, Diana was desolating. The old movie star had been his only source of comfort at Diana night made himFirst official appearance with Charles after the announcement of their commitment. For the appearance, Diana had chosen a black taffeta strap dress for a gala at the Goldsmiths room in London, that Charles deemed quite inappropriate. "He told him that women in the wear of the all-black royal family is when they attend a burial," a close friend revealed. "He also thought that the dress was too revealing. »

"At the reception, Charles did not know him and Princess Grace intervened and listened to Diana told him that she was terrified, she did all badly," said a royal insider. "Diana has never forgotten his kindness. Despite the palace's objections, Diana stole Monaco to attend the funeral of Princess Grace. It was his first solo commitment as a member of the royal family.

For his first tour of Wales, Diana chose a customized costume byDonald Campbell In Welsh national colors: red and green. Campbell conferred with Diana's stylist at the time,Vogue editorAnna Harvey, Order that the outfit be worn with green pantyhose coordination and shoes.

The day she wore it the costume, Diana Accessorized withRed shoes and white pantyhose. "Diana had an instinct of the first days on what people were waiting for her," Campbell told me. "Instinctively, she knew when she met the people of Wales, people were more likely to notice red shoes."

After DianaMarried to the royal familyShe was forced to improve her style - but that does not mean she got rid of her old favorites. "She had an" official "cabinet and a private wardrobe. She loved [Jersey Dresses], but she could not bring them in public when she was married for the first time in Prince Charles," said the designerDavid Sassoon. "She loved charistically, with patterned [sanglers] and felt at ease in dirty and jeans. After marriage, these clothes disappeared from the public view."

In 1993, as Diana startedreinvent after separationShe started going to the fitness, a London gym. In November of this year, theSunday mirrorPosted photos ofDiana working in a leotard. It turned out that the owner of the gymnasium,Bryce Taylor, had planted a secret camera on the ceiling.

The princess continued the pursuit and the question was settled by the Court. "She told me when the photos appeared for the first time it was all his fault because she had cooperated with the media for years," said a friend. "She had gave an inch and they had taken a court."

Diana was so tedious aboutWrite thank you Note that she has prepared thembeforeShe attended an event. In his bookA royal dutyHis former butlerPaul Burrell wrote that Diana had a "matching line of production", in which she sat down at her desk addressing envelopes and preparing for wagother before leaving for the evening. On his return, always in his evening dress, Diana sat down and wrote his letter, who has always been posted the next morning.

According to the royal biographerRobert Hardman, Diana wasreserved on board A British Airways flight like "K.stafford" when she stole Argentina to attend a gala dinner after her separation from Prince Charles. But it was all in vain. In his bookQueen, Hardman writes that his cunning "fool" person at all ".

As a member of the royal family, Diana had access to one of the mostSpectacular jewelry collections in the world. And of course, she wore many breathtaking pieces on state occasions, including the amateurs of diamonds and lovers of pearls, and his sapphire and a diamond brooch gave him by the queen mother (she had redone in a Pearl neck pearl).

But the princess was also fan of Butler & Wilson costume jewelry in London. On a 1986 journey to the Gulf, Diana wore sparkling Crescent-moon earrings considered as a gift from her guests costs thousands of people. The princess had actually bought the fancy earrings (which were in the form of a national symbol of Saudi Arabia) the day before going on a trip from £ 23 ($ 30) to its favorite costume jewelry store.

In June 1994, Diana and his brother,Charles Spencer, visited designerChristina StambolianAt his store on Beauchamp Place. The designer helped the princess select a short red wool holding and sleeveless silk blouse. Then Diana mentioned that she was looking for something for a "special occasion," told me Stambolien in an interview with my bookDiana: the secrets of his style.

When Stamumbolian first suggested the now famous black dress, Diana questioned whether it was appropriate. "I told him I thought that there should be fewer dress and more Diana because she was so beautiful. Diana thought it was too short and too naked, said Stambolian.

Then his brother entered. "After having a lot of laughter and a head of his brother, who thought I could do as she wanted it," she said, "Yes, dare" "Stamolien" makes a styling kit in the pilot jacquard of Como, Italy. The rest is the story of fashion.

Diana was delivered to retail therapy when sheThe wedding has become rockyBut when she divorced, she kept more stringent reins on her expenses. A friend close to the princess told me that Diana wore a leather notebook to record his purchases. "She is rarely going shopping without her," she said.

There areendless mythsAbout the way Diana his just lost the designation "His Royal Highness". The official announcement of Buckingham Palace said that the decision to abandon the title was made by the princess. But many of the friends close to Diana told me that he was not his decision to give up. According to the initiates, the princess was "deeply injured" byQueen Elizabeth Final decision to rebound Diana as "Diana, Princess of Wales" as a condition of his divorce of Charles.

In his bookA royal duty, Burrell also writes that Diana implored the queen to keep her title. According to Burrell, she said, "I worked hard for 16 years for you, mom, and I do not want to see my life removed from me that I want to protect my position in public life. "

In his bookDiana Chronicles,Tina Brown reported that when Diana received a price as a humanitarian award of the New York Foundation's 1985 Foundation's 2009 Cerebral Motor Infirmity, she asked former Secretary of StateHenry Kissingerto find "purpose" in his life after divorce. Brown writes that Kissinger, who was at the gala will present the prize in Diana, says the princess "not to do things she was against, but the things she wasfor. "

Diana andSarah Ferguson were childhood friends. The media even nicknamed "the happy speech of Windsor" when Fergie marriedPrince Andrew (Diana had presented them). Women related to their missed marriages and seemed destined to be friends for life until Diana frozenly frozen fergie out of his orbit.

Indeed, the duchess had written a book entitledMy story, In which she disclosed from the private details of her friendship with Diana. She even indicated that she had obtained a case of plantar warts to wear a pair of Diana shoes. Despite several letters of argument and calls from his former friend, Diana remained impassive. The women had not spoken for months at the time of Diana's death. "Guilt poison the duchess to date," said a common friend.

In ITV's documentaryDiana, our mother: her life and her inheritance,Who was broadcast Prince Harry described in 2018, what his mother was behind the cameras. "Behind closed doors, she was a loving mother and aincredibly funny person, "He says. "All I can hear is his laugh in my head," he said, adding that she told him once: "You can be as mean as you want, but just do not be taken. She was the Naughty Mother ".

In 1993, on hisfirst solo commitment In Nepal, the media followed Diana every movement. According to the Royal Hardman biographer, the number of journalists and photographers present were "three times larger than the number of international telephone lines" outside the country. In his bookQueen of the world, Hardman writes that a team ofVogue The magazine wore red hats with the name of the fashion Bible in the hope that Diana would focus on them first. Alas, she does not.

Diana had accumulated hundreds of stuffed animals that will be entrusted to her by admirers and her apartment at the Kensington Palace was full of them. In his bookThe Way We Were Remembling Diana, Burrell revealed the couch in his room was filled with teddy bear and "plush toys. »

Royal ChefDarren McGradyOnce said theDaily mail That Diana loved his bread and butter pudding. According to McGrady, the princess habit to slip into the kitchen and eat all the grapes from the top of rich, creative in calories. But above all, he noted, the princess was very careful about what she was eating and glued to a plus-free diet of egg whites and poached chicken.

Old makeup artist of DianaBarbara Daly, Who was with the princess the day of his wedding, told me that Diana wore flowers for the few occasion (and even spilled some on his wedding dress). Over the years later, she wore Diorissimo from Dior and Hermes 24 suburb containing both white flower head notes, including lily of the lily of jasmine and white lilac.

In 1997, as she intensified her efforts to support the ban on antipersonnel mines, she met her good friend, oscarized directorSir Richard Attendagh, To discuss the possibility of doing a series of documentaries on the humanitarian issues they took care of the most.

"Diana was looking for a new way to use his renown worldwide for good," said a friend of the princess. "She told me," After all that happened, I want to do something that makes a difference in the world. I know she would have been brilliant ".

Diana may have been an international fashion icon and one of the most beautiful women in the world, but according to many of his friends, she does not see each other in this way. "She told me she was pretty good to" getting forward "when she owed," said a friend. "But shestruggled with his body image Since so long and she has always thought that her nose was too big. It was really that in recent years she felt she was looking better because she felt healthy and strong. And for trivia more royal, consult the12 Secrets on Queen Elizabeth Only Know Royal Insides.

Diane Clehane is a journalist and author of New YorkImagine Diana andDiana: the secrets of his style.

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