Di designer’s dresses kept in secret shrine after tragic loss

AS Prince Harry talks in a new TV documentary about the grief he still feels about his mother’s premature death, i can reveal Princess Diana’s favourite designer has also left a devastating emotional legacy.

For catherine Walker’s royal dressmaker husband Said cyrus has disclosed in a moving interview that he can’t let go of her memory — and still has a wardrobe full of her clothes.

cyrus, who co-founded the fashion business catherine Walker & co with his wife in 1977, says keeping her clothes has been a source of comfort since her death in 2010 from cancer.

‘i still have her clothes but i’ve never thought about doing anything other than keeping them,’ he told me at the preview of the catherine Walker Autumn/Winter collection.

‘Perhaps because clothes were what we did together, that makes them something i want to preserve. i don’t go and look at them every day, but it’s nice to know they’re there.’

As Princess Diana’s favourite dressmaker, catherine Walker created many of her most splendid gowns, transforming her from shy Sloane to a royal power player.

The Princess was even buried in a black catherine Walker evening dress

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that she had bought just a few weeks before her death.

now cyrus is weaving his magic around the Duchess of cambridge, after the 37-year-old chose a bright green catherine Walker tunic for the second day of her royal tour of Pakistan this week.

The Duchess also dazzled in a pale blue shalwar kameez, another one of cyrus’s creations, inspiring comparisons with Princess Diana’s wardrobe during her visit to the country in 1997. Thanks to the ‘Kate effect’, Said says he’s ‘never been busier’ and believes his clothes give women confidence.

cyrus is the model of discretion when it comes to his clients . . . but he did let me in on one secret.

‘When you do bespoke, you realise that everybody is lopsided, there is no such thing as a perfectly symmetrical person. You’ve only got to be right- handed to have a completely different shoulder on one side to the other, which you learn when you start measuring people.’

Perhaps the picture- perfect Duchess has her flaws?