Princess Diana almost ditched this 'racy dress' as she feared it would embarrass Prince William

Princess Diana almost ditched this 'racy dress' as she feared it would embarrass her teenage son Prince William.

• Princess Diana wore a racy dress to the Met Gala back in 1996 but almost ditched it over fears it would cause embarrassment for Prince William it's been revealed.
• The former Princess of Wales wore a Dior navy slip dress to the glitzy event.
• This royal news comes as it's claimed dating Prince Harry was ‘scary and uncomfortable’ according to his ex Chelsy Davy.

Princess Diana chose to wear a 'racy dress' to the 1996 Met Gala but almost picked something else as she feared the outfit would embarrass her son, Prince William.

The mum-of-two is said to have 'embarrassed' her son Prince William after their iconic trip to Thorpe Park. And more recently, the Prince of Wales proved he does embarrass easily when he blushed after a cheeky admirer asked for a kiss during his tour of Scotland.

Diana's outfits are iconic and even after her tragic death in 1997, the Princess has gone on to inspire future generations and young royals like Kate Middleton, who replicated her iconic outfit and Meghan Markle has also made a touching tribute to Princess Diana in her first TV interview since bombshell Oprah chat.

But while Diana was ever pushing the boundaries when it came to fashion, there was one dress that she was too worried to wear - and almost didn't - as she didn't want to cause her teenage son Prince William any embarrassment.

According to the Daily Mail, Diana feared the gown was "so racy, in fact, [she] very nearly didn't wear the dress to New York's Met Gala for fear Prince William, then 14, wouldn't like it being so revealing."

But Diana did wear the dress and teamed it up with her legendary pearl and sapphire choker necklace, which she famously wore when dancing with John Travolta at the White House back in 1985.

In royal biographer Katie Nicholl’s 2010 biography William and Harry, she spoke to William's childhood friend Kitty Dimbleby, who was close to the young royal. And she recalled noticing her friend was 'distracted' by his parents. She said, "I do remember William being distracted by what was going on at home. At the time there was a lot in the newspapers about Charles and Diana's marriage being in trouble."

She added, "William told me, 'Papa never embarrasses me but Mummy sometimes does.'"

Diana's racy dress came at a time when she had just divorced Prince Charles and Bruce Oldfield once remembered the way he and other designers were challenged to dream up new outfit ideas for the Princess.

He confessed, “She was lovely little Shy Di. She was putty in the hands of anybody, really. We all had to do things that were a little bit grander. I was always trying to make her look sexy, not romantic.’

But Prince William once recalled one of his favourite fashion memories of his mother when she surprised him with a trio of models. He said, "She organised when I came home from school, to have Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell waiting at the top of the stairs, I was a 12 or 13-year-old boy who had posters of them on his wall and I went bright red, and didn't quite know what to say and fumbled and pretty much fell down the stairs on the way out. I was completely and utterly starstruck."

Despite the blushing moments, Prince William also had a deep love for his mother. In an interview with GQ magazine in 2017, Prince William said, "One thing I can always say about my mother is she smothered Harry and me in love. Twenty years on I still feel the love she gave us and that is testament to her massive heart and her amazing ability to be a great mother."

Meanwhile, last years' Met Ball was cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic and this year it has been pushed back until September and promises to be a “more intimate version”.

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