Princess Diana's wedding until now cannot compare to all the royal weddings that happened. It was like fetched into a fairy tale book of prince and princesses, and Lady Diana Spencer's beauty was indeed timeless from the day the public met her until the last days of her life.
Looking back on Prince Charles and Princess Diana's "fairytale wedding" and their highly publicized married life, it was an inevitable event to happen. Despite falling in love with his first love, Prince Charles cannot resist the young, beautiful, and charming Lady Diana Spencer.
That is why with only 12 occasions of dating and getting-to-know, Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer announced their engagement in February of 1981. At this time, 19-year-old Lady Diana Spencer is the talk of the town, the apple of the eye of every media as Prince Charles brings her to every royal event there is.
Comes July 29, 1981, the wedding that was viewed by an estimated global TV audience of 750 million people and a hundred thousand more who waited in the streets to witness the epic royal event. Prince Charles who is "Heir Apparent" and is the future King of England marries Lady Diana of the aristocrat Spencer family, after which became Diana, Princess of Wales.
And just like every wedding of a famous personality, and most especially for a royal wedding, the details were most likely kept confidential. The wedding dress with a 25-foot train of Princess Diana was just one of the many pieces of details that the public did not know until after the royal wedding.
The wedding dress of Princess Diana was designed by husband-and-wife design team David and Elizabeth Emanuel and is comprised of six different fabrics, including 25 yards of silk taffeta. The bride at that time had to fit into the wedding dress, which is 3-4 inch bigger than her, like many other brides-to-be, Lady Diana Spencer lost weight before her wedding day.
Up to this time, Princess Diana wore the longest train on her wedding dress, and it was reported that Princess Diana just loves her wedding dress despite experiencing some unfortunate shortcomings on the day itself. Reportedly, the trains itself didn't fit in the coach that was transporting her and her father to the cathedral and ended up being slightly wrinkled.
According to the National Constitution Center, hand-embroidered with over 10,000 pearls and mother-of-pearl sequins with antique laces that originally belonged to Queen Mary, the design itself was believed to be hard to copy. Apart from that, the wedding dress of Princess Diana had a good luck token which the designers sewed on, a small gold horseshoe encrusted with white diamond.
Princess Diana's wedding dress was surely a part of a national treasure, but it was first a Spencer Family treasure as the gown traveled the world as a moving museum after Princess Diana's death. Now Prince William, as the eldest son, gets to keep his mother's wedding dress as part of the Will that Princess Diana left for her two sons. Aside from that, her jewelry and personal belongings have been equally shared by Prince William and Prince Harry.
