Images of the late People Princess Diana of Wales Enchanting Life - Marking the 20th Anniversary of her death - August 13, 2017

Princess Diana leaving a gala dinner in Washington DC, wearing a red Victor Edelstein dress, October 1990, two years before she and Prince Charles officially divorced.

Princess Diana sparkles on the red carpet at the royal premiere of the James Bond film Licence To Kill. It is 1989 Prince Charles and Princess Diana are already leading separate lives.

Princess Diana at the wheel of her convertible Audi with Prince William and Prince Harry in June 1994

Princess Diana with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie, at Westminster Abbey in 1982. Prince Charles arranged a meeting between them to help Princess Diana with her faith.

Princess Diana and her mother Frances Shand Kydd in the Royal Box at Wimbledon in 1993

Prince Charles and Princess Diana take an open-top carriage through the streets of St Columb, Cornwall, in May 1983. The crowds mob Princess Diana, to Prince Charles’s obvious discomfort.

Princess Diana dancing with American Actor Clint Eastwood at the White House dinner hosted by US President Ronald and US First Lady Nancy Reagan in 1985

A sombre Princess Diana in Lagos, Nigeria, in March 1990. She and Prince Charles spent a week in West Africa but were barely on speaking terms.

Princess Diana in February 1988 and on a tour of Thailand with Prince Charles not pictured,  there is no hiding her unhappiness. With her beloved boys back home and her marriage in deep trouble, she’s bereft.

A bare-chested Prince Charles takes a break from royal duties in Australia. It was April 1981, two months after the engagement.

Lady Diana was left behind to plan the wedding, and wept after seeing Prince Charles off at the airport.

Princess Diana and Prince Charles pictured, it’s still early days but already there are signs of tension as the camera captures a moment of unease during an official dinner in Wellington, New Zealand, in April 1983

Princess Diana was carrying a glossy Versace black bag, often lifted her sleek tailoring, pictured, when she went to the Duomo in Milan for Gianni Versace’s memorial service. Princess Di's friend had been murdered in Miami in July 1997 — just over a month before she lost her own life in Paris.

Princess Diana's one of her final public appearances, speaking in support of the Red Cross landmine campaign in Washington in June 1997, she chose to wear a white quilted top-handle Chanel bag with her business-like lilac Versace suit.

(L) Princess Diana, above, with the distinctive chain-strap Ferragamo black bags, which are now named the Lady D
(C) Princess Diana in Ferragamo’s Lady D chain-strapped shoulder bag are classics — and remain marketed in Diana's name
(R) Princess Diana is pictured with a green Lady D as she visits the Royal Marsden hospital in February 1993

Princess Diana, Princess Of Wales, leaving The Savoy Hotel after attending The Daily Star Gold Awards for Courage and Bravery on March 19, 1997. The Princess of Wales opted for a pink Catharine Walker suit which goes perfectly with her beige Versace handbag.

Princess Diana is seen carrying  a Dior patent black bag for an official visit in London in 1996.

As Princess Diana's evening wear necklines got lower and sexier, she worked out how to dip out of cars with what she called her ‘cleavage bag’

Princess Diana on casual day in a soulelado bag in 1981

Princess Diana clutched the bags, designed by Anya Hindmarch, across her chest to avoid any unfortunate photographs

The Late Princess Diana draped herself in sparkling stones she adored at every opportunity, from family heirlooms to pieces borrowed from the Spencers’ favourite jeweler Collingwood, ensuring a dazzling appearance that captivated everyone in the room - August 7, 2017

Princess Diana is pictured in Hong Kong in 1989, wearing a pearl and diamond tiara that was a wedding gift from the Queen



Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge in 2016, she's wearing The Cambridge Lover’s Knot Tiara is the family heirloom.  In December 2015, royal watchers were delighted to see the Duchess of Cambridge dust it off for the Queen’s annual diplomatic reception at Buckingham Palace. Then again in 2016.

The Spencer family tiara was Princess Diana's favorite and she wore it on her wedding day. It features large gold scrolling foliage adorned with tulips, stars and a central heart, each decorated with diamonds and set in silver. A similar headpiece was recently sold by the family for £185,000

Princess Diana selected this antique diamond necklace and matching girandole earrings for engagement portraits taken by Lord Snowdon. Jewellers Collingwood wanted to present her with the diamond set as a wedding gift, but Buckingham Palace officials declared such a valuable gift was inappropriate. Instead, the jeweler gave Princess Diana a pair of diamond and pearl earrings. However Princess Diana continued to borrow the set, wearing the necklace for King Khalid of Saudi Arabia’s visit to London in June 1981.

Little is known about this eye-catching arrow shaped brooch featuring diamonds and sapphires that Princess Diana fashioned into a necklace for an America’s Cup Ball at the Grosvenor House Hotel in 1986. Her flamenco-style dress was by Murray Arbeid, her earrings were faux onyx stones from her favorite costume jeweler, Butler and Wilson, and she wore mismatched gloves (one black and another red), setting the tone for her most fashion-forward years.

Heirloom: from left, Queen Elizabeth II in the tiara in 1958; Princess Diana in 1991; and the Duchess of Cambridge in 2016. The Cambridge Lover’s Knot Tiara (sometimes known as the Queen Mary Lover’s Knot) is thought to be worth around £500,000
The tiara comprises diamonds and pearls from Queen Mary’s personal collection, set in silver and arranged in 19 arches capped with bows (or ‘lovers’ knots’), resting on a circular band of diamonds. On Mary’s death in 1953, it passed to her granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II. A spokesman for Garrard says Diana wore the tiara ‘an awful lot’, mostly for presidential banquets, gala dinners and formal portraits.
She felt it lent her a suitably regal air, but in private complained of its weight and said it gave her headaches if worn for too long.
After Princess Diana's divorce from Prince Charles in 1996, the tiara returned to the Windsor vault. In December 2015, royal watchers were delighted to see the Duchess of Cambridge dust it off for the Queen’s annual diplomatic reception at Buckingham Palace. Then again in 2016.

Princess Diana pulled out all the stops for this encounter with actress Elizabeth Taylor in 1982. She chose a glittering diamond flower cluster necklace featuring graduated floral diamond patterns.
The necklace, featuring graduated floral diamond patterns, was mid-way between a pendant and a choker, meaning it was particularly flattering on Princess Diana. Although she generally preferred shorter necklaces as they showed off her long neck and elegant shoulders.

The diamond- encircled round watch face is joined to a strap with loops of diamonds and was a wedding gift to Queen Elizabeth II in 1947 from Switzerland. The Queen wore the watch often in her youth, once showing it off over a pair of black satin gloves. It was among the many wedding presents Queen Elizabeth II bestowed upon Princess Diana in 1981. She is seen wearing it here attending a gala dinner in Washington during 1985. The tiny gleaming stones mirror the crystals on the shoulder of her white silk gown.

This striking choker and crescent-shaped earrings — part of a set which also included a diamond bracelet — were given to Princess Diana by the Sultan of Oman during the royal couple’ s tour of the Gulf States in 1986. Pictured here at a charity performance of Cinderella at the Royal Opera House in 1987, Princess Diana adored the distinctly modern design.

This diamond flower featuring a central stone and 18 diamond ‘petals’ was passed to Princess Diana following the death of her friend Adrian Ward-Jackson from Aids at the age of just 41. She wore it to his memorial

Princess Diana paired this elegant diamond necklace featured a single strand of glittering stones fused together at the front to make an asymmetric vertical drop from her mother's collection with her wedding earrings as she attended the first royal black tie event of her young life in 1981
Paradoxically, Princess Diana later learned the importance of not wearing jewelry with her many low-cut and strapless gowns. These dresses had necklines which seemed to beg for diamond chokers or pendants, but she soon came to realize the power of a bare décolletage.

The King Faisal of Saudi Arabia necklace was chosen by Princess Diana for an event in Australia in 1983. Queen Elizabeth II, who adored the necklace, lent the piece for the royal couple’s tour Down Under in 1983 and is a fringe design with drop diamonds set with additional slender ‘baguette’ and rhombus-shaped ‘brilliant’ diamonds.
Made by American ‘jeweler to the stars’ Harry Winston, it was given to the Queen as a gift by the Arab monarch during his visit to Britain in 1967.

Princess Diana in 1991 was wearing The Cambridge Lover’s Knot Tiara family heirloom.
The tiara comprises diamonds and pearls from Queen Mary’s personal collection, set in silver and arranged in 19 arches capped with bows (or ‘lovers’ knots’), resting on a circular band of diamonds. On Mary’s death in 1953, it passed to her granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II. A spokesman for Garrard says Princess Diana wore the tiara ‘an awful lot’, mostly for presidential banquets, gala dinners and formal portraits.
She felt it lent her a suitably regal air, but in private complained of its weight and said it gave her headaches if worn for too long. After her divorce from Prince Charles in 1996, the tiara returned to the Windsor vault.

Queen Elizabeth II in The Cambridge Lover's Knot Tiara in 1958
The most magnificent heirloom worn by Princess Diana — or any of the younger royals to date — the Cambridge Lover’s Knot Tiara (sometimes known as the Queen Mary Lover’s Knot) is thought to be worth around half a million pounds.
It came into her possession via the Queen, who gave the diamond and pearl-drop headpiece to her new daughter-in-law as a rather generous wedding present.
The tiara’s history can be traced back to 1818, when it was given as a wedding present to the German bride of the Duke of Cambridge, King George III’s seventh son. Passed down several generations, the tiara eventually caught the eye of Queen Mary, wife of George V, who had her own copy made by the royal jeweler Garrard.
The tiara comprises diamonds and pearls from Queen Mary’s personal collection, set in silver and arranged in 19 arches capped with bows (or ‘lovers’ knots’), resting on a circular band of diamonds. On Mary’s death in 1953, it passed to her granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II. A spokesman for Garrard says Princess Diana wore the tiara ‘an awful lot’, mostly for presidential banquets, gala dinners and formal portraits.

Princess Diana made these two bracelets from a tassel necklace containing alternating square-cut diamonds and sapphires. The Princess debuted the bracelets at a concert at Versailles in 1994, paired with a halterneck green and black dress by Catherine Walker.

Princess Diana in a stylish midnight blue choker was worn for more than a decade, first at a competition for young pianists in Newport, Wales, in 1985
This pieces made from reset sapphires from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia suite was a stylish midnight blue velvet choker.
The oval sapphire came from the ring, and the surrounding diamond sunray frame from the watch. A three-deep chain of tiny diamonds was added on either side to run halfway along the velvet. Though she had more than enough diamonds and sapphires to run the gems around the back of the choker, Princess Diana decided to focus attention on the huge blue stone at the front.
The piece was backed only by Velcro, which, while not hugely secure, allowed the Princess to take it on and off easily.

Princess Diana wearing a sleek midnight blue Catherine Walker gown, her hair slicked back in a ‘duckbill’ do, she finished her new look with ‘the necklace that stunned the world' with these striking sapphire and diamond drop earrings, during a 24-hour visit to New York in 1995.  She also chose to wear them for a Vogue cover shoot to mark her 33rd birthday in 1994



Princess Diana rose eyebrows at a State banquet in 1986 by deciding to wear the choker as headband,  paired with a sapphire blue flowing gown and matching earrings, at a State banquet hosted by the Emperor of Japan.

Princess Diana decided to mix and matched her jewelry during an official visit to Seoul in 1992. The earrings comprised an unusual round-shaped gem attached to a pearl drop and were in two stones: rubies and sapphires



Princess Diana, elegant in a white lace dress and matching satin clutch, The Princess of Wales showed off a new sapphire bracelet at a gala dinner in Washington in September 1996. The bracelet featured eight oval- shaped sapphires surrounded by twinkling diamonds. On her other wrist, Princess Diana wore the sapphire bracelet she received as a wedding gift from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, as well as the sunray diamond and sapphire earrings from the same set, which were set off beautifully by her white, exquisitely beaded dress.

Princess Diana made no secret of expressing her personality through her jewelry — and this quirky pair of mismatched earrings is the perfect example. Princess Diana owned the earrings, comprising an unusual round-shaped gem attached to a pearl drop, in two stones: rubies and sapphires. She’s thought to have been given them on one of her many international tours in the late Eighties.
For this outing, during an official visit to Seoul, South Korea, in 1992, she decided to mix and match — wearing a ruby earring in her right ear and a sapphire in her left. Perhaps she had packed one of each color by mistake. Or, more likely — judging by the glint in her eye — the playful Princess was making a fashion statement.

Princess Diana in this dazzling diamond necklace was a wedding gift from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, a man she had never met, and was by far the most magnificent of her 12,000 wedding presents. Made by Asprey, the suite comprised a huge Burmese sapphire pendant set in a jagged sunray fringe of diamonds

Princess Diana in this eye-catching seven-strand choker with a gleaming, diamond-surrounded blue stone in its center. This huge and distinctive oval stone originated in Sri Lanka and was worn as brooch by Princess Diana for a banquet at Hampton Court Palace hosted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in 1982. Princess Diana was not a fan of brooches, however, early the following year Princess Diana had it refashioned into ‘the necklace - most likely with the help of the Spencer family jeweler Collingwood that stunned the world' shortly after. The oval stone set amid seven strands of shimmering pearls became one of her most iconic pieces of jewelry, she often paired with sapphire or pearl drop earrings.

Princess Diana's favorite earring were these Saudi Arabian sapphires surrounded by ten diamond. They were worn to mark Prince Harry's birth in 1984 and later given by Prince William to Kate to mark their engagement in 2010
They’re believed to have come from the strap of the watch she was given as a wedding present from the Saudi Crown Prince, recognizable because of the rare faceted sapphires.
The earrings originally featured four sapphire and diamond clusters — two of which were detachable pendant drops — but Princess Diana preferred to wear the earrings without the extra sapphires.
The earrings became part of Princess Diana’s bequest to her sons. Shortly after their engagement in 2010, Prince William gave them to Kate Middleton, who put her own twist on them with a drop style.

These earrings — a single Saudi Arabian sapphire surrounded by ten round diamonds — became Princess Diana’s favorites, later given by Prince William to Kate Middleton to mark their engagement in 2010,  who put her own twist on them with a drop style.

Princess Diana's wardrobe have been sold at Karry Taylor Auction in London on December 13, 2016

Three rare gowns from Princess Diana's wardrobe have been sold at auction in London, including a purple velvet Bruce Oldfield dress she wore in Portugal in 1987. It was sold for £56,250 at auction in London, although it was predicted to fetch up to £70,000

Princess Diana is seen chatting to the fashion designer Bruce Oldfield while wearing his gown at the gala



(R) Princess Diana, seen with Prince Charles (L) chatting to the then Australian PM Bob Hawke and his wife Hazel.  Princess Diana wore a Catherine Walker turquoise silk dress outfit during the royal couple's 1983 tour of Australia and New Zealand. This dress proved a surprise hit, with the winning bidder paying £5,250 for the frock which was only expected to reach a top price of £1,000, was sold by Kerry Taylor Auctions in London on 12 December 2016

Prince Charles with Princess Diana, she wore checked dress to the Braemar Highland Games in Scotland in September 1982, was snapped up by a buyer for £8,875. It was expected to fetch between £6,000 and £9,000 at auction and almost reached the higher estimate 

Princess Diana is the epitome of summer cool in rare 1990 candid snap taken on Valentino's yacht posted on 4 July 2014

Princess Diana, Princess of Wales poses in a bikini while on holiday in the South of France.

Princess Diana pictured looks as impossibly stylish as she always did; sporting a printed bikini, an over-sized purple shirt tied effortlessly in a knot above her stomach, and a pair of black sunglasses, which was taken aboard fashion designer Valentino's yacht in 1990.

 

 

Princess Diana in the South of France in 1997, a month before her tragic death.



 

A true summer style icon, Princess Diana is pictured in 1991 on vacation in Sardinia

Princess Diana pictured in St. Kitts in 1993, is remembered as one of history's most iconic royals; revered for her compassion, style and charisma.

The people's princess: The summery photo of Princess Diana pictured here in 1997 was shared by Giancarlo Giammetti, her former friend and the partner of Valentino, who frequently dressed her.