Lady Di Hasn’t Always Cut Her Hair Short: See How Long Her Hair Has Lasted

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Nature rewarded Diana with many virtues, including luxurious hair. They seemed to resist gravity – even in the humid London climate, the Princess of Wales’ hairstyle retained volume and shape. All thanks to the density and porosity of the hair: it naturally rests well, and Lady Dee has used it skillfully. She was especially fond of haircuts with bangs and a convenient short length. And now we will show what Princess Diana looked like when her hair was much longer than us in the most famous photos.

As a girl, Diana Spencer wore long curls – and thick bangs to her eyebrows.

With such hair, about shoulder height, she walked until adolescence. Only the length of the bangs has changed. Diana was charming, but, like many girls, she dreamed of experimenting with her appearance. For college, she cut her hair to a variation of Cesson’s haircut, which, in the end, really suits her.

Throughout the years in the spotlight – from the first rumors of love for Prince Charles in 1980 to his death in 1997 – Princess Diana wore short blonde hair.

But there was an exceptional period. In 1984, shortly after Prince Harry was born in September, Diana, after a long hiatus, appeared in public with noticeably pushed back curls and caused a stir. The mother of two princes appeared in a sweet feminine image.

Gossip, however, said that long hair, tucked behind the ears, made Lady Dee look old. Apparently, the Princess of Wales was seriously going to get braided – anyone who’s ever tried to pull off a short haircut knows these tricks with bobby pins!

Few people know it, but this attempt by Princess Diana to display long hair caused a scandal in the august family. The locks grew so much that it became possible to put them in a high hairstyle, with which Diana appeared at the annual opening of Parliament. This is a very important event – the Queen puts on a coat and speaks in front of the House of Lords.

But in 1984, things went wrong. The mantle and the queen, and even more so the lords, were overshadowed by Diana, who looked not only like a princess, but like a fairytale princess. All the newspapers wrote about her hairstyle. The queen was very unhappy.

And in 1990, the princess did her famously iconic pixie haircut. According to her stylist Sam McKnight, the iconic short haircut was an impulsive act. During the photo shoot, he tucked his hair into a tiara to make it look shorter (these photos have become some of the Princess of Wales’ most famous photographs). The princess liked the result so much that she allowed McKnight to cut her hair and “ditch the bad taste of the 80s”.

The public went wild with joy when they saw the new image of the princess, which has become a classic. And Diana was perplexed: “Why are people always talking about my hair?”. And in fact!