Hats that made Diana feel like a Princess
There was no other girl inn the world who wore as many hats ats as Princess Diana did duringuring the eighties.
On the day she signed up to The Firm in St Paul’s Cathedral in 1981, millinery-wearing was in the job description.
‘She knew it was part of being royal,’ says milliner Stephen Jones, best known in the early eighties ies for his rock star hats, but a firm favourite of the Princess incess in the latter part of the decade.
‘She understood from the Queen and the Queen Mother that it was part of the responsibility y — to be identifiable. It was a symbol of royalty, to set you apart.’
The Queen’s rules for millinery were laid down n long before Diana arrived, and still exist. hats must never disappoint by having brims which obscure the he face from onlookers — that would be rude — and cann never fly off.
Diana took the convention to heart, at least at first.first And it worked. ‘hats give me confidence,’ Diana once remarked, early in her career as Princess of Wales.