King Charles asked Princess Diana to stop using hair spray

Her blond bobbed locks were the envy of many women during her Kensington Palace years, but eco-friendly King Charles once asked Princess Diana to stop using hairspray because it was bad for the environment, one expert recalls.

Speaking in Channel 4’s Charles: Our New King, which airs tomorrow at 8pm, Majesty Magazine’s editor in chief Ingrid Seward told how the then-court king asked his wife to stop using the hair product, which she was. reportedly very fond of.

Reports from 1988 indicated that the King, then Prince of Wales, eventually banned hairspray from Kensington Palace because he was aware of the negative impact of aerosols on the ozone layer.

Seward also shared that Princess Diana, who died in 1997, did not understand why her husband was so adamant that she had to stop using the product.

“Diana was very funny when Charles first spoke about the ozone layer,” said Ingrid

He said, ‘You need to stop using your aerosol hairspray’ and she said, ‘Why?’

“He said, ‘Because aerosols make a hole in the ozone layer,’ and she thought he was crazy.

Reports from 1988 confirmed that the environmentally conscious future king eventually banned the product from the London home he shared with Diana.

Diana’s blonde bob became world famous after her marriage to Charles in 1981, and she made it a point to keep it pristine

Speaking to recipients of awards from a program organized by the Royal Society of Arts, Charles, then 39, said he believed the products were harmful to the environment, even though it hadn’t been scientifically proven at the time.

“Personally, as I’ve gotten older and more autocratic, I’ve banned the use of aerosol cans in my household,” he revealed at the time.

He added, in a clear reference to Princess Diana, who was 27, he added: ‘There still remain difficulties in finding adequate and good enough alternatives to hairspray – as I am sure all husbands will find here. .’

Ingrid Seward shared the anecdote about a documentary about King Charles’

That may be because Diana reportedly loved the product and used it constantly to maintain the bounce and shine of her legendary coiffed bob.

Famously photographed David Bailey, 83, who has photographed everyone from supermodels to the Queen during his long career, said earlier this year that Princess Diana had “terrible hair.”

Speak with The Daily Telegraph in march he said Diana’s hair was ‘solid as a plastic doll’ because of the ‘hairspray’.

Diana was not the only one who found the ideas of the then future king about the environment insane.

The king was way ahead of his time when it comes to his environmentally conscious considerations.

Journalist and broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika said in the documentary: “People thought King Charles was some jerk to talk about the environment.

“Why is he talking about organic farming, this all seems a little crazy,” she said, referring to the kind of comment people made about Charles at the time.

Channel 4’s Charles: Our New King airs tomorrow at 8pm.