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Princess Diana

Revenge (dressing) is never the answer

The one exception to this rule is Princess Diana's revenge dressing moment, when the then estranged wife of Prince Charles wore a fitted black off the shoulder dress with a rather short asymmetrical hemline to a high-profile summer party.

Crown pebbles

That this brouhaha over a reel-life controversy comes simultaneously with a row over the real-life, famously ‘last-straw interview’ given by Princess Diana to the BBC’s Martin Bashir which the journalist has been accused of using fake bank statements and other misrepresentations to procure, is further grist to the mill.

Ethical questions

The interview, where the Princess admitted to having had an extra-marital affair and where she said famously that there “were three of us in the marriage, so it was a bit crowded”, had shaken Britain’s royal family to its core. Within a year of the interview, the royal couple had divorced and a year later, the Princess had died in tragic circumstances in Paris.