“That’s the cape that Freddie Mercury tried on for his outfit that you always remember him in,” Dame Zandra Rhodes, 84, points out.
Sketchbooks are piled high on pink, Z-shaped tables from her former shop, mingled with art books documenting her most famous works — including the dress she designed for one of her royal clients, the late Princess Diana. “She wore that when she announced she was pregnant,” says Rhodes.
