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Starting today, Princess Diana's dress going on display at Kingston Palace
The dress that Princess Diana wore on her wedding day in 1981 will be shown on display at former Kensington Palace home. The exhibition opens to the public on 3 June and continues on to early January 2022. Diana's dress
The exhibition which begins a month before Diana would have turned 60, also features a rare surviving toile - an early version of a finished garment - for the 1937 gown worn by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother for King George VI's coronation.
As well as their mother's wedding dress, Princes William and Harry have also loaned her going-away dresses to the show.
Princess Diana’s dress which was designed by David and Elizabeth Emanuel, is "now among the most famous in bridal history", organisers of the exhibition, Royal Style in the Making said. Diana's dress
The dress has a fitted bodice overlaid with panels of antique Carrickmacross lace originally belonging to Queen Mary.
The gown features a 25ft (7.6m) sequin-encrusted train, which filled the aisle of St Paul's Cathedral.
As well as the nod to history, it was very much in keeping with early 1980s fashion with its large puffed sleeves trimmed with bows and deep ruffles of taffeta. Diana's dress
Source: BBC
