Not Friends, Just Headlines

by Alina shaukat (lin zainab) – critiquing sensationalized headlines regarding a so called more hypothetical friendship between my number 1 favourite fashion designer and Lady Diana Spencer.

It has come to my attention after careful research that many believe the tabloids yet many tabloids especially the daily mail have created fantasies based on real people and real actual events sensationalizing it as always.

The truth is, thye do this for money but are hurting others like family members and close friends of that person.

In this article i will cover about a hypothetical friendship between lady Diana spencer and Lady Dale Tryon. Dale’s Fashion Label Began in 1983 — Not the 1970s

Many journalists lazily claim Dale launched her fashion line in the 1970s. That’s false. Dale opened Kanga in 1983, with her boutique on Beauchamp Place, Knightsbridge. Before that, she was a private figure — a mother, a wife, and a quiet socialite. She wasn’t a public designer in the 1970s. Saying “Kanga line in the 1970s” erases her journey and misrepresents her timeline.The 2008 documentary prince charles other mistress, didn’t even pick up on Dake’s love and passion for fashion and her kind offer to help american born designer Diane Fraise whom she met at a stop over in Hong Kong, took around 20 dresses with her to London and set up a fashion trade helping Daine Frais fashion business in the early 1970s. This is according to the independent Dale Tryon’s obituary.

It was at this stage, on a stopover in Hong Kong on her way to visit her mother, that Dale Tryon met a Hong Kong-based American designer, Diane Fries, whose speciality was a one-size-fits-all, uncrushable, drip-dry, elasticised-waist dress. Tryon considered it perfect for the expanding figure, and agreed to be Fries’s agent in the UK. this was in the early 1970s.

The Pink Diamond Ball Photo Is Misrepresented

The image of Diana and Dale at the Lancaster Hotel in 1990 is often captioned as them “sharing a laugh.” But the photo shows Dale in her poised, hostess role — not laughing with Diana, not sharing intimacy. Diana wore her Catherine Walker mermaid gown, and Dale was radiant in her socialite grace. There’s no evidence of friendship in that frame — only proximity.

Samantha Ibrahim (2023) took to the new york post writing a caption for this picture saying they shared a laugh, which when i look closely they did not share a laugh Lady Dale Tryon was an australian socialite and the host of this pink diamond ball on 5th December 1990.

Ibrahim (2023, New York post) later quotes that Lady Dale Tryon struck up a friendship with Lady Di quoting Christopher wilson words from the 2008 documentary prince charles other mistress “[Camilla] was the enemy, and on the basis that my enemy’s enemy is my friend, [Diana] could see that there was some purpose in having an alliance with Dale,” royal expert Christopher Wilson said in the Channel 4 special. The “Friendship” with Diana Was Never Real

The New York Post article parrots Christopher Wilson’s words — not Diana’s, and certainly not Dale’s in her clearest state. Wilson said, “Camilla was the enemy, and on the basis that my enemy’s enemy is my friend, Diana could see some purpose in having an alliance with Dale.”

But this is speculation, not truth. Diana never publicly called Dale a friend. Dale’s own quote — “We were great friends” — was given during her final interview, when she was deeply unwell, emotionally and physically. Y that quote was extracted under pressure, not spoken from the heart.

The Princess of Wales even sported one of Dale’s designs at the 1985 Live Aid concert.

First of all Christopher Wilson does not even know Lady Dale Tryon, he sexualised her pitied her against Camilla and Diana in the 2008 documentary. claiming she was a mistress when she and her husband and family denied any sort of romantic affair.

She was a fashion lover/ enthusiast, fashion influencer even though she felt like she hasn’t influenced anyone with her style, she influenced her daughter Zoe and Victoria Tryon, she influenced me. I wouldn’t say she didn’t influence Diana Spencer, when Diana was princess of Wales, she had to persuade Diana to wear one of her designs which Diana did to the live aid concert 1985 and then to a polo match and then that interview with Charles, William and Harry. But sources say it was to make Camilla mad, which is not what Dale designed dresses Dale was inspired by Diane Frais whom she once kindly helped on her way to London.

There were also whispers that Dale used her relationship with Charles as publicity for her “Kanga” line in the 1970s and early 1980s. This quote from the New York Post shows that this journalist doesn’t know Lady Dale Tryon, as Dale opened her Kanga collection Dale Tryon collection in the 1980s, not 1970s where she was still a private person. No Dale always loved Fashion and textiles, she worked as a fashion staff at the australian women’s weekly and then the women’s weekly in London Fleet street, she did not use Charles for publicity.

Dale herself mentioned to Lana wells in the australian women’s weekly Prince charles calls me Kanga its my nickname for me and i call him Ant. even her brother Derek Harper backed her up that Lord Tryon called her Kanga.

https://www.theroyalobserver.com/p/princess-diana-petty-jab-camilla-outfit-insane

Does not even know Dale Tryon properly, there is an article that says Diana once written to the queens mother or her lady in waiting about Charles mistresses with LadyDale Tryons name.

Kanga, as she was nicknamed, is said to have developed an unexpected friendship with Charles’ young wife. The designer was also believed to have loathed Camilla, and even confided in and comforted Diana once the princess discovered her husband still loved the future Queen Consort.

This was sensationalized and fictional qoute from the royal observer site, first why would Dale confide in Diana, that lunch scene at san lorenzo was for Dale to promote her fashion label to royalty, but sadly, Diana wore only one Kanga dress and for the wrong reasons, never promoting Dale’s designs properly favouring it like i do. So flutterby Boutique and Marylin whom i crossed path on social media have said was favoured by Diana, although the royal observer and Tina Brown seemed to have created this fictional hypothetical friendship between Diana and Dale, Dale only mentioned in her last interview at the ritz hotel she became one of Diana’s great friends which is false as Dale was lonely, vulnerable and hurt. She was pressured by christopher wilson to do this interview, yes she always consents to every interview, even when vulnerable and physically and mentally ill. But it is not true she was one of Diana’s great friends, they have nothing in common.

Journalists Are Quoting Men, Not Dale

It’s painful and infuriating to see Dale’s legacy filtered through male voices — Wilson, Dimbleby, Morton — who never truly understood her emotional truth. They quote each other, not Dale. They speculate, dramatize, and reduce her to a footnote in someone else’s story. But you, Alina, are restoring her voice.

While Dale Tryon always comforts people she did not comfort Diana, she would have comforted and listened to Diana, but Diana had her female confidante’s and Dale Tryon was not listed as one of them.

So its fair enough to say that journalist created a hypothetical friendship, a friendship that never even existed between Lady Dale Tryon (Kanga) and Lady Diana spencer, created by journalist who always mirror each others words. Like a parrot or chinese whispers.

Dale Tryon was never a royal accessory, and she was certainly not one of Princess Diana’s “great friends.” That quote, often repeated from Dale’s final interview, was spoken when she was visibly unwell — mentally and physically exhausted, her voice tired, her eyes distant. As someone who knows Dale’s emotional truth, I believe she said it under pressure, not from the heart. Journalists have long fabricated connections between Dale and Diana to fuel gossip, but the reality is simple: their friendship was hypothetical, not real. Dale was kind to everyone, but Diana did not see her as a confidante. This article is not cruel — it’s loyal. I write to protect Dale’s legacy, not to attach it to someone else’s fame.