Queen Camilla Wore a Dior Bag Named After Princess Diana

Queen Camilla can’t resist a good accessory, even if it has a major tie in to King Charles’s ex-wife, Princess Diana.

Camilla attended day 10 of the Wimbledon Tennis Championship on July 10 and was spotted attending the event in a perfect for the summer, cream-colored shirt dress. The Queen accessorized with gold drop earrings, a puppy-shaped brooch and debuted her first ever Lady Dior handbag in taupe, the latter a classy—yet controversial—finishing touch to the outfit. Camilla also sported the purse while performing royal engagements the following day in Wales.

The Lady Dior handbag was originally called the “Chouchou” and was gifted to Princess Diana by France former First Lady Bernadette Chirac. Diana fell in love with the purse, and it “instantly became her favorite, so much so she wore it day and night, and bought several Diors at Harrods upon her return to London,” Tatler explained.

Diana first started carrying the purse around 1995, and after being seen with the item so much in public, the bag was renamed “Lady” in her honor in 1996, a callback to when she was called Lady Diana Spencer before marrying into the royal family. Diana even wore the bag to the 1996 Met Gala in a navy blue shade that matched back perfectly to her dress.

Of course, the presence of Camilla’s Lady Dior bag is not lost on royal observers. While Diana was still alive, then-Prince Charles entered an extramarital affair with Camilla throughout the 1990s while he was still married to Princess Diana. Charles and Diana ultimately divorced in August of 1996, while Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles divorced the year prior in 1995. Charles and Camilla married in 2005.