Before Meghan Markle was making statements with her fashion choices, there was Princess Diana.
According to Elizabeth Holmes, the author of “HRH: So Many Thoughts on Royal Style,” Diana was a “master dresser” who would tailor her style “not just to what she was doing or who she was meeting, but how she was feeling.”
“I think Diana’s choices were screaming sometimes,” Holmes told Insider. “Diana delighted in clothes. Her story is filled with such highs and lows, but understanding her fashion, how she used it, found power in it, and reclaimed her voice is my favorite part of this book.”
Here’s a look back at every time the late royal made a powerful statement with her clothes.
Based on an interview she did with the BBC in 1995, it seems Diana always saw herself as an outsider in the royal family. Wearing the black-sheep sweater could have been her way of revealing her feelings to the public.
“I’d like to be a queen of people’s hearts, in people’s hearts, but I don’t see myself being Queen of this country,” Diana said in the famous BBC interview. “I don’t think many people will want me to be Queen. Actually, when I say many people, I mean the establishment that I married into because they have decided that I’m a non-starter.”