On June 29, 1994, Diana, Princess of Wales, chose her outfit carefully. This was not unusual for the most photographed woman in the world. For years, her symbiotic relationship with the press had allowed her to signal the state of her marriage through her clothing. On her wedding day in 1981, she wore an absurdly anachronistic fairytale gown. The train, composed of 8 yards of shining taffeta, was so immense that it could barely fit in the 100-year-old glass coach which conducted her to her wedding. The press approvingly noted her old-fashioned feminine virtue. This extended to her uncle, Lord Fermoy’s public announcement of her premarital virginity. “Diana, I can assure you, has never had a lover,” he informed a reporter.
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