Princess Diana's Kensington Palace Apartment

It looks like an overdecorated, garish cube.

Is that a popcorn ceiling?

What’s with the big pot? Did she get it at Pier 1?

Looks like linoleum.

Netflix has a great documentary called Diana: In Her Own Words (or something like that), which includes footage she filmed with a speech coach. I believe she's in her Kensington Palace apartment, and I was disappointed by how tacky the furnishings were. Her apartment looked like it was decorated by The Queen Mother...it just reeked of old lady chic.

I wonder what the Cambridges' private residence looks like. Kate seems like she would have good taste in furnishings.

Kate's designer is a guy called Ben Pentreath.

I don't see the mandatory picture of the Queen nailed to the wall. Hmmmm......

I like the idea of that white door hitting the back of the chair. I’d tempt fat guests to sit there by putting a bowl of chips on the table. If I knew they were old and bitter, I’d switch out for butterscotch candies. You know they’d stash the wrappers in the cushions.

More.

Let's be honest, she knew how to dress but she had terrible taste in Classic English (which can be a terrific look.)

I don't know many Brits with design good sense.

I am not at all surprised.

A stuffed animal collection? Yikes.

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I have images of Diana wandering around that room and sitting in every chair. She must have been very lonely.

House for sale having previously been owned by Princess Margaret... but variations on the theme for the most part.

I like English Country as a style or Classic English, but it is what it is and personally I like predictable. I like a room you can just settle down in.

It’s gorgeous! Not to my taste, yet for a lovely princess the design is perfection.

I think they basically rotate from a pool of furnituree, all of the same style that has been around since the Queen Mother’s youth.

It's a tragedy that Diana died too soon to profit from Nicolas Fairford's lifestyle and décor videos.

The glass table tops are hideous.

There were some photos when the Obama's visited Kensington Palace, R5. I think there have been some photos of Amner Hall too. And of course the doc from the Narkles will have unauthorized recordings of private homes, Meghan was stopped recording at AH and at Charles' home.

It isnt spectacularly beautiful, but its quite nice, but the photos are just horrendous. Really badly lit, so they make the place look dark and dreary

The same pictures shot in bright light and after a tidy up would look vastly better

Is that where the boys lived after the divorce?

Oce can only assume that a potted plant belongs in that huge urn on the table. I suppose they didn't plan for these photos to be on DL.

Diana moved into Kensington Palace with Charles after they married. I imagine if she wanted to redecorate, she'd have to take it up with the Royal Household, and the Privy Purse and Treasurer's Office would've imposed a tight budget than what her haute coutier tastes would allow.

It looks like your fairly typical upper class private lodgings in a big house.

Hideous. I’d rather Travolta’s gay English country house decor.

R26 thats because those pics were properly lit and taken by a proper photographer who knew what they were doing

If I took photos at night with a cheap cellphone camera in Travolta's joint they would probably make it look just as shit as Diana's apartment

"What’s with the big pot?"

Bulimia

[quote]haute coutier

Of course I meant "haute couture."

I think Travolta's place is gaudy... perhaps gaudier than Diana's.

It’s hot cooter, R29

Lots more pics here, I don't think it'd been redone since they moved in in 1981/2.

It was a different time with different taste. But, the Princess of Wales really did have horrid taste in decor even for those trouble times.

I wish Diana and Camilla could have been on Trading Spaces.

She would have been a girl of 20 when she signed off on that place. She didn't have time to develop any real taste... the place has the look of something approved by someone who thought that was how it should look.

It’s a bit ‘80s, but nothing terrible. With decent lighting it was probably very nice. I do like what Wills and Kate have done at R7, very elegant and comfortable.

R32 it looks way better in those pics. As R36 says its a bit 80's (mainly the wallpaper) but still quite pleasant

[quote] and I was disappointed by how tacky the furnishings were.

This Is England

Not one of them has enough taste to lick a sucker and call it sweet.

The core of the only successful furnishings in Elizabeth's houses in the rooms that matter are 200 years old.

Margaret leaned on Tony and he mainly wanted to zing and zip with the 60's with a bird and a bloke, because he lacked the courage to be as edgy as his pretensions were.

The QM just sat on her tuffet and if everything had enough satin was was floral and wasn't too deco she was fine. Charles wants to be George III. Andrew lives in shit in rooms that look like a second-rate English hotel with delusions of "contempo."

Edward and Sofes live in a semi-snooty portion of a fugly old barn.

Anne lives like a semi-feral country horsewoman who DOESN'T CARE, so naff off.

William and Kate act like they're playing it down but end up with "executive suite" sensibilities.

The Qunt and her spineless ego-pup just want to live like simple gajillionaires showing bling with price tags attached.

George VI's family has lived mostly in well-to-do-but-just-a-bit-shabby spots handed to them, elaborated with lesser pieces no one else wanted.

So Diana's horrid mess - that of a schoolgirl in her first house as a grownup - showed understandable tastelessness, misfit as it had to be in misfit Kensington, which was the first "old palace cut-up" with rooms assembled absurdly.

They are all nothing if not consistent.

Diana insisted on a chamber pot in every room, evidenced by op's photo...note chamber pot under end table.

R10 Diana had appalling dress sense, even for the Eighties. She only started to dress well when she went to Vogue and they recommended a stylist who helped her look half decent.

Before then - this is an example of Diana’s taste in clothes.

She could've used a Kensington system for decorating.

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