The famous photographer of the British royal family David Bailey has made revelations about the mythical golden hair of the late Princess Diana. The man, now 83, looked back on his long career to The Telegraph and took the opportunity to deliver some revelations on the secrets of shootings on both Lady Di and Queen Elizabeth II…
David Bailey notably revealed in an interview that the Princess of Wales, who died in 1997 in a car accident in Paris, had “terrible hair“while the Queen had gorgeous locks as a child. The photographer remembered in particular a 1988 shoot of the royal family where his assistant had the light fall on the head of the young princess, in her twenties at the time:By reflex, I said ‘oh fuck’, then Diana replied: ‘Don’t worry about that, you didn’t do it on purpose’“. David Bailey said that the princess often had hair”hard as a plastic dummy“because of the copious amounts of hairspray she put on.
David Bailey had acquired a certain recognition thanks to his black and white portraits and in particular that made of Princess Diana in 1989 when she was still 27 years old. However, the no less famous photographer Norman Parkinson had been the first selected to take pictures of William and Harry’s mother, before David Bailey was finally chosen. The latter had previously made portraits of the pPrincess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jonesthe first Earl of Snowdon.
The physique and allure of the late Lady Di is still largely an object of myth and worship. So much so that the hairdresser of the stars Sam McKnightwho took care of the hair of the Princess of Hearts in the 1990s, was invited by the producers of the series The Crown specifically recreate the period hairstyle on the actress Emma Corrin.