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Following Princess Diana: Secrets of the 1983 NZ royal tour revealed, 40 years on

Jane Phare
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Senior journalist, NZ Herald·NZ Herald·
10 mins to read

Like a vision from a Botticelli painting, Princess Diana swept through New Zealand 40 years ago, charming sceptics and winning over a new generation of royalists. Jane Phare recalls some of the behind-the-scenes antics of the 1983 royal tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales.

She arrived in April, wafting Penhaligon’s Bluebell perfume and leaving a trail of smitten fans in her wake. Here was “Shy Di”, a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis, on her first (and only) visit

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