Diana’s best style moments from 1981

Since Diana, Princess of Wales has arrived on Netflix’s The Crown, we’re looking at some of her best style moments from the 1980s, starting with her debut as a royal fiancée in February 1981.

On 24 February, Prince Charles and Lady Diana announced their engagement and posed for pictures on the grounds of Buckingham Palace. Her now-iconic blue dress was bought at London department store Harrods straight off the racks by Diana herself.

For her first official engagement as a royal fiancée, Diana joined Prince Charles at a fundraising concert at Goldsmith Hall in London on 8 March. Wearing a strapless black evening dress designed by her eventual wedding dress designers David and Elizabeth Emmanuel, Diana unwittingly gave the press a show with her neckline and later commiserated with Princess Grace of Monaco in the bathroom about the scrutiny of press coverage that would now follow her for the rest of her life.

On 24 June, one of Lady Diana’s last official engagements as a royal fiancée was attending the premiere of the latest James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only, at the Odeon Theatre in Leicester Square in London.

Lady Diana became the Princess of Wales on 29 July when she married Prince Charles at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Her wedding dress remains one of the most iconic of all time, with a 25-foot train, a 153-yard tulle veil and a fairytale-inspired dress made of ivory silk taffeta and antique lace.

On 4 November, Diana attended an exhibition opening for the Splendours of the Gonzaga at the Victoria & Albert Museum in a Bellville Sassoon dress.

Several of these outfits will be replicated in Season Four of The Crown which streams on Netflix from November 15th 2020.