As the gown of the 80s goes on show, David Emanuel, its co-designer, describes working with his ‘sweet as pie’ royal client
For David Emanuel, the memories are always close to the surface. Straightening the veil, smoothing ruffles of ivory silk taffeta, whispering “a few sweet things” to Diana Spencer before she walked down the aisle in St Paul’s Cathedral and became the Princess of Wales.
“It was a long time ago, darling,” he says, of creating what is probably still the world’s most famous wedding dress, with his ex-wife Elizabeth in 1981, “but when we talk about it it comes back in a flash, like it was yesterday. It was magical.”
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