(Left)Sweet picture of what should have been a happy young family on a summer holiday. Diana, dressed in a simple striped silk sundress, and her family taken during a photo call on vacation in Majorca with the Spanish royal family in 1986. Unfortunately, the reality was quite the opposite. Not only by this time had Charles gone back to Camilla, but it was, at least according to royal watcher James Whitaker in his book 'Royal Blood Feud', the last time Charles and Diana were intimate. Charles then left early to join his family at Balmoral, leaving his wife and children to enjoy the sun and water without him.
Diana gained a reputation from her critics as being a frivolous and spendthrift shopper, but this dress indicates that in reality she was fairly practical. When something worked, it stayed. Mentioned (but not proven) to be from the German house Mondi and bought originally for her honeymoon (she was seen wearing it on the 'Brittania', near right), it was in her wardrobe for at least 8 years, being last seen publicly in June of 1989 (far right) at a charity event at one of the David Lloyd Racquet Clubs, of which she was patron,in aid of the British Deaf Association, of which she was also patron.
