{"id":26,"date":"2014-10-27T07:19:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T06:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/jenniferjuly\/?p=26"},"modified":"2014-10-27T07:19:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T06:19:21","slug":"sebastian-shakespeare-emanuel-begs-princes-to-display-her-diana-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/jenniferjuly\/2014\/10\/27\/sebastian-shakespeare-emanuel-begs-princes-to-display-her-diana-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Emanuel begs Princes to display her Diana dress"},"content":{"rendered":"

With its 25ft train and 10,000 pearls, it became the most famous wedding dress in the world. Now Elizabeth Emanuel, who designed Princess Diana\u2019s wedding outfit, is imploring Princes William and Harry to put it on permanent display in Britain.<\/p>\n

The outfit worn by Lady Diana Spencer at her nuptials to Prince Charles in 1981 had been in the possession of her brother, Earl Spencer, since her death in 1997. Last month, he handed it over to the princes in accordance with his sister\u2019s will, which stated that her belongings were to be \u2018looked after\u2019 by him until both of her sons turned 30.<\/p>\n

On reaching his milestone birthday on September 15, Harry also received a \u00a310 million inheritance from Diana. \u2018I\u2019m hoping and assuming that it will go on display at Kensington Palace, as so many people want to see the dress,\u2019 says Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

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\u2018It\u2019s ridiculous that the Diana dress was not in the recent V&A exhibition Wedding Dresses 1775-2104. They had to make do with a video instead.\u2019 A Kensington Palace spokesman tells me: \u2018The wedding dress and other items that were on display at the Althorp Estate have just been returned to the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry.<\/p>\n

It is too early to say what the long-term plans will be for the wedding dress.\u2019 The spokesman declines to comment on where the dress is presently being stored. This won\u2019t be the first time the dress has disappeared from public view.<\/p>\n

It went absent from an exhibition of historical gowns at Kensington Palace state apartments around the time Diana\u2019s break-up with Charles was made official. William and Harry\u2019s reluctance to put it on display may be owing to their unhappiness about the commercialisation of their mother\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

For two months every year, the dress was exhibited at Althorp, the family\u2019s Northamptonshire estate, and then went on an American tour called Diana: A Celebration, featuring the bridal gown and 28 of her designer dresses.<\/p>\n

This was widely regarded as a rather tawdry exercise, with the Princess\u2019s clothes ending up as exhibits in U.S. shopping malls. When TV actress Amanda Abbington racked up debts last year of \u00a3120,000 and was declared bankrupt, it was thought her partner and fellow Sherlock star Martin Freeman would bail her out.<\/p>\n

But she insisted on resolving the matter herself. Now it emerges rather than lend a sympathetic ear, Freeman, who is worth \u00a310 million, chastised her over her finances.<\/p>\n

\u2018He had a massive go at me about my tax bill and it was very upsetting. But now it\u2019s all gone to the Inland Revenue,\u2019 she revealed at Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards, where she won Best Supporting Actress.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019ve been together for 14 years through thick and thin,\u2019 Amanda, 40, explained. \u2018I was declared bankrupt, but I came up fighting and I\u2019m now discharged from bankruptcy. Of course, Martin wasn\u2019t happy and he told me off, but he was right. I am lousy with money.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With its 25ft train and 10,000 pearls, it became the most famous wedding dress in the world. Now Elizabeth Emanuel, who designed Princess Diana\u2019s wedding outfit, is imploring Princes William and Harry to put it on permanent display in Britain. The outfit worn by Lady Diana Spencer at her nuptials to Prince Charles in 1981 … L\u00e4s mer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion","category-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/jenniferjuly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/jenniferjuly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/jenniferjuly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/jenniferjuly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/jenniferjuly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/jenniferjuly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/jenniferjuly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/jenniferjuly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.improveme.se\/jenniferjuly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}