“Prince Charles Was Completely Overshadowed”: The Forgotten Story of Princess Diana’s First Revenge Dress

When the Lord Chancellor announced Prince Charles’s engagement to Lady Diana Spencer on 24 February 1981, American Vogue promptly commissioned a table laying out the betrotheds’ “cars, clubs, income [and] endearing mannerisms.” Charles, readers learned in the May 1981 issue, loved Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn’s works on the Gulag, was nicknamed Action Man and Golden Eagle, counted Verdi as his favorite composer (with a particular fondness for La Traviata), and habitually wore both […]
“Prince Charles Was Completely Overshadowed”: The Forgotten Story of Princess Diana’s First Revenge Dress