Crossing the classes!

How Princess Diana became the acceptable face of poshness to ordinary people

- CAREN CLARK, IAN MACEWAN

NEW FACTUAL

Diana’s Decades

Thursday, 9pm ITV

With a backdrop of recession, unemployment and social unrest, the early 1980s was an unlikely time for the British public to fall in love with an aristocrat. But that’s what happened to Lady Diana Spencer.

Nursery assistant Diana hit the headlines when she started dating Prince Charles, and quickly became the acceptable face of poshness at a time when the aristocracy was feeling the pinch.