Taffeta with no tantrums: How we created Diana’s fairytale wedding dress

As the gown of the 80s goes on show, David Emanuel, its co-designer, describes working with his sweet as pie' royal client

For David Emanuel, the memories are always close to the surface. Straightening the veil, smoothing ruffles of ivory silk taffeta, whispering a few sweet things" to Diana Spencer before she walked down the aisle in St Paul's Cathedral and became the Princess of Wales.

It was a long time ago, darling," he says, of creating what is probably still the world's most famous wedding dress, with his ex-wife Elizabeth in 1981, but when we talk about it it comes back in a flash, like it was yesterday. It was magical."