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Emma Shacklock

How Princess Diana 'forced' the Royal Family to change its traditional ways

A composite of a picture of Princess Diana in 1997 and a picture of the Wales family at Trooping the Colour 2025.

Princess Diana will forever be remembered as a royal icon and her impact on the Royal Family continues to be felt to this day. After decades of things being done a certain way, expert and woman&home correspondent Emily Andrews believes that Diana "forced" the royals to break with tradition and modernise in a way they hadn't before.

She and her co-host Reverend Richard Coles discussed this on their Catching Up With The Royals podcast, with him dubbing Diana "the second most significant person in this game" next to Queen Elizabeth. In his view, she "completely changed the way we looked to royalty."

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