For anyone who's wondered how Princess Diana managed to look effortlessly polished while subtly bending royal protocols, here's a fascinating tidbit from behind the palace walls. Diana, who loved to wear a skirt suit or short dress, had a clever way of avoiding those stuffy royal tights that were practically mandatory for royal women in the '80s.
According to the late princess's longtime dance instructor, Anne Allan, Diana had a clever way of getting out of wearing stockings. In her memoir Dancing With Diana, Allan wrote that she was in Rome during the same time as the princess in 1985, and upon the royal's return to London, Diana was showing off quite the glow.
