Queen Camilla takes style inspiration from Diana and carries £4,940 Dior bag named after late Princess during New York trip
She wore a series of sparkling outfits during her state visit to America and now Queen Camilla has been spotted wearing a Lady Dior bag, a style named in honor of Lady Diana.
Camilla and King Charles are on the last day of their four-day trip to America after dining with President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania at a state banquet and attending a star-studded charity gala in New York, among other events.
And their last instagram In this post, Camilla is seen holding the £4,940 Lady Dior bag that Diana made famous in the nineties.
Diana was given a bag made of goat and lamb skin as a diplomatic gift during her visit to Paris in 1995.
Although not exactly designed for her, the patent bag with its reed pattern, gilt hardware and double handles was initially a prototype that Diana was the only one seen with.
However, instead of being delivered by Christian Dior PR, the bag was gifted to Diana by Bernadette, wife of French President Jacques Chirac, at the Grand Palais in Paris.
It was the fateful year of Diana’s Panorama interview and her marriage was completely over. The reservations he once had about being seen with foreign fashion brands were quickly fading away.
When Dior quickly introduced the bag to its stores, Diana stocked many more in different colors, including black, which Camilla had along with a white version.
This was a design loved by Princess Diana and now Queen Camilla has been seen carrying the Lady Dior bag (Diana was seen wearing the bag in London in 1996)
Now renamed the Lady Dior, the bag’s popularity skyrocketed and became a best-selling house classic.
It comes after the Queen attended a lavish reception for New York’s literary community on Wednesday and toured an exhibition of Anglo-American items with actress Sarah Jessica Parker.
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Camilla was also reunited with Vogue’s Global Editorial Director, Dame Anna Wintour, who whipped out her trademark sunglasses to greet the royal visitor with kisses.
The Queen, wearing a navy blue crepe silk dress and coat by Fiona Clare and a Britannia red, white and blue brooch belonging to the late Queen, was at the New York Public Library for the event hosted by the charity The Queen’s Reading Room.
US TV presenter and author Jenna Bush Hager, whose Read With Jenna book club features on NBC’s morning program the Today Show, said of the Queen as she introduced her to the room: ‘Books are part of her DNA.’
In her own speech, Camilla described the venue as ‘one of the greatest libraries in the world and somewhere I have always wanted to visit’.
Describing how her father instilled in her a love of reading as a child, she said: ‘In fact, the first Americans I knew and loved were the characters I met in my treasured children’s novels: Little Women, What Did Katy Do, Charlotte’s Web… Even then I knew that books were the best friends you could have, in good times and bad.’
Nearly 100 guests from the literary, publishing and cultural worlds from the United States and the United Kingdom, including singer Katherine Jenkins and authors Harlan Coben, Min Jin Lee and Tina Brown, gathered at the historic Stephen A. Schwarzman building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.
The landmark dates back to 42nd Street in 1933 and has been featured in dozens of movies and TV shows, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Ghostbusters and Sex and the City.
In the Royal Family’s latest Instagram post, Queen Camilla was seen carrying a black Lady Dior bag.
Picture: Princess Diana wearing a Versace suit and Lady Dior bag in Liverpool in 1995.
The elegant Lady Dior Bag pictured is made from lamb and goatskin and costs £4,940.
In the second, Sarah Jessica Parker’s character, Carrie Bradshaw, is stood up in the library by Mr. Big on her wedding day and leaves, walking down the grand staircase of the library’s Astor Hall.
Camilla and Sarah Jessica echoed Carrie’s path down the stairs after meeting in London earlier this year and reuniting at the reception. The actor is a Booker Prize judge.
Speaking ahead of their meeting, he described the Queen’s visit as ‘wonderful for all New Yorkers’.
He added: ‘When we have the opportunity to talk about our libraries and literacy, I know the Queen spends a lot of time focusing on this in her country.
‘He talked about this opportunity for some kind of bridge project, and our libraries, you know, are very challenged with funding and support.
‘I am so excited that we will be in this extraordinary building. ‘Patience and courage and underline this extraordinary repository for these documents and have made it their business to take the time to talk about this birthday and what lies here, showing our history.’
The last time he met the Queen, he said, ‘we talked about books’.
‘It was a thrill for all of us, especially as he seemed to envy spending time with books; She seems to love reading as much as we voracious readers do, and she also showed a lot of hospitality in her home to everyone who was there.
‘He spent so much time with each person that day and I’m so grateful that he shed light on reading and the relationship between reader and book and how that changes lives, enriches lives and fosters empathy and curiosity, and it means so much to Her Majesty.’
