The dress Princess Diana wore at her 1981 wedding to Prince Charles went on public display at the late princess's former home in London.
![A dress and jacket that Princess Diana changed into on her wedding day made by designer David Sassoon. Photo / AP](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/O2MCE3YZLOOXC5UAWEVNDK7NL4.jpg?auth=1d3b9b578bd6adedae172ef91cbab0cbf681814425b17ccb3a0cfdcf45c50d9d&width=16&height=14&quality=70&smart=true)
The taffeta-ruffled white dress designed by David and Elizabeth Emanuel, with its 25 foot (8 meter) sequin-encrusted train, helped seal the fairytale image of the wedding of Lady Diana Spencer and the heir to the British throne.
![Prototype shoes for the ones Britain's Queen Elizabeth II wore at her wedding. Photo / AP](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/AHLQEFBXARJT627XSB6QREUUAE.jpg?auth=8402401323631c85eb4b01f604231cf2110e4866e10a736309c0956d1f3b6711&width=16&height=10&quality=70&smart=true)
Reality soon intruded. The couple separated in 1992 and divorced in 1996, with both acknowledging extramarital affairs. Diana died in a car crash in Paris in 1997 at the age of 36.