Woman and Home’s<\/a>\u00a0digital beauty writer Naomi Jamieson.<\/p>\nShe added: ‘In doing so, it creates a sense of cohesion and timelessness, whilst remaining very subtle.’<\/p>\n
Diana, Princess of Wales<\/p>\n
To attend a performance of the English National Ballet, of which she was the patron, at the Opera House in Budapest, Hungary, in 1992, Princess Diana looked radiant in a the Spencer Family’s tiara, an off-shoulder red dress and matching scarlet nails.<\/p>\n
Earlier photos of Princess Diana show that the royal did not often sport nail polish and this may have been down to her tendency to bite her nails.<\/p>\n
After kicking the habit, she slowly regained the confidence to paint her nails in bold colours.<\/p>\n
In an interview with the Daily Mail, Diana’s hairstylist Sam McKnight talked abut her cover shoot for Vogue in 1991.<\/p>\n
McKnight said: ‘She had just stopped biting her nails and was so proud of how they looked!’<\/p>\n
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Princess Diana attends a performance of the English National Ballet in Budapest, Hungary, on March 23, 1992<\/p>\n
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The Princess during a visit to the Mortimer Market Centre – a service for HIV\/AIDS sufferers – in Euston, north London on December 1, 1994<\/p>\n
Most memorably, Diana, Princess of Wales, stepped out in the ‘revenge dress’ at the Serpentine Gallery on June 29, 1994, pairing the off-the-shoulder Christina Stambolian design with red nails.<\/p>\n
As Stambolian would later write: ‘She was clearly angry\u2026 She wore bright red nail enamel, which we had never seen her do before. She was saying: “Let\u2019s be wicked tonight.”‘<\/p>\n
Diana repeated the striking red manicure during a visit to the Mortimer Market Centre – a service for HIV\/AIDS sufferers London on December 1, 1994.<\/p>\n
And once again while attending a gala evening in aid of Cancer Research at Bridgewater House in London in 1995.<\/p>\n
Princess Eugenie<\/p>\n
Shaking up royal beauty trends, Princess Eugenie is a fan of quirky nail art.<\/p>\n
During her grandmother’s\u00a0Platinum Jubilee Pageant on June 5, 2022, the royal was spotted holding her son August Brooksbank in the royal box.<\/p>\n
With her hands clasped around his sweet Union Jack jumper, her perfectly manicured nails featured a red French tip.<\/p>\n
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Eugenie holds her son August Brooksbank while watching the Platinum Jubilee Pageant from the Royal Box on June 5, 2022<\/p>\n
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Eugenie wears red polish during Trooping the Colour in 2017<\/p>\n
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A young Eugenie wears Union Jack nails to mark the London Olympics in 2012<\/p>\n
Even before she was a mother, Eugenie wore bold red polish to Trooping the Colour in 2017 as she rode in a carriage alongside her sister Beatrice and father Prince Andrew.<\/p>\n
And she commanded attention with her unmissable Union Jack painted nails at the Investec Derby Festival back in 2012.<\/p>\n
The patriotic manicure was a nod to the London Summer Olympics which were taking place at the time.<\/p>\n
Zara Tindall<\/p>\n
As the daughter of strong-willed Princess Anne, Zara Tindall is unafraid to push the boundaries of royal style.<\/p>\n
The former Olympian turned heads in an all-black ensemble at a film premiere in 2015 with heavy black eyeliner and a vampy dark manicure to match.\u00a0She opted for the same dark colour when attending the Cheltenham Festival on December 13, 2019.<\/p>\n
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Zara Tindall attends the premiere of Being AP in an all-black ensemble with a matching vampy manicure on November 23, 2015<\/p>\n
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The former Olympian opted for the same dark colour when attending the Cheltenham Festival on December 13, 2019<\/p>\n
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A picture of Zara’s nails after she competed in the\u00a0Festival of British Eventing on August 5, 2023<\/p>\n
But the state of her nails was the last thing on Zara’s mind when she competed in the Festival of British Eventing on August 5, 2023.<\/p>\n
The mother-of-three was seen participating in one of the jumping competitions which takes place on the Princess Royal’s estate in Gloucester but her teal blue manicure looked worse for wear.<\/p>\n
Fitzwilliams, commenting on royal manicures, said:\u00a0‘Generally the intention is obviously to be stylish without drawing attention to nail colours.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Exceptions are few, but, when they happen, as with everything royal that is unusual, they can cause a stir.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh Thought to be Queen Elizabeth’s ‘favourite’ daughter-in-law, it is surprising Sophie would opt for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,92,533,1281,2832,532,2831,7710,519,448,2417,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-209755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-dailymail","12":"tag-kate-middleton","13":"tag-meghan-markle","14":"tag-prince-of-wales","15":"tag-prince-william","16":"tag-princess-of-wales","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-royals","20":"tag-the-queen","21":"tag-uk-royal-family","22":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114737098862538448","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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