The 71-year-old Dublin-born designer, who worked at Princess Diana’s personal designer from 1982 to 1997, said that he always took the princess a bunch of flowers when he visited her at Kensington Palace for a fitting.<\/p>\n
He claimed, however, that despite the princess always being ‘thrilled’ when he took her flowers, he didn’t think that Prince Charles – who she married in 1981 – had ever given her a single flower.<\/p>\n
Speaking last week, the dad-of-seven – who designed the iconic British Airways uniform in 1992 – said his ‘most amazing’ work was for Princess Diana, but that he suspected that Prince Charles paid him ‘reluctantly’.<\/p>\n
He said: “My other most amazing work was for Diana.<\/p>\n
“I got paid well there – nice little cheques, signed by Prince Charles (probably reluctantly).\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked what it was like designing for Princess Diana, he said: “I would go to Kensington Palace and bring her a bunch of flowers each time.<\/p>\n
“She was so thrilled. I don’t think he (Charles) ever gave her a flower.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
He told the Sunday Times Business and Money supplement: “We Irish are free in our expressions, so I just called her Diana – I didn’t bow or call her ma’am.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I particularly loved a suit I designed for her, when she appeared in Hyde Park with Pavarotti. It was raining but she was sun-kissed and breathtakingly gorgeous. I get tears in my eyes when I think about her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“She had a very close, friendly relationship with her children. All their best qualities come from her.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The designer hit the headlines in 2015 when he said that Kate Middleton was ‘no Princess Diana’.<\/p>\n
He said: “She started off as another Princess Diana, but I think I got the right one. I was lucky to have Princess Diana as my epitaph. Kate is lovely, but she’s no Princess Diana.<\/p>\n
“Different backgrounds, different everything. She’s obviously very obedient and carries out the royal message. She won’t be running around and hanging out with Elton John anytime soon.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 71-year-old Dublin-born designer, who worked at Princess Diana’s personal designer from 1982 to 1997, said that he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[93840,7709,7730,7731,36174,46232,1760,171633,9729,1412,7710,519,170725],"class_list":{"0":"post-529645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-autoplay_video","9":"tag-british-royal-family","10":"tag-charles","11":"tag-charles-iii","12":"tag-ctp_video","13":"tag-designer","14":"tag-king-charles","15":"tag-paul-costelloe","16":"tag-prince-charles","17":"tag-princess-diana","18":"tag-royal-families","19":"tag-royal-family","20":"tag-uploadexpress"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115441879538730394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529645","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=529645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}