It's no secret that the women of the royal family send a subtle and sometimes casual message with the clothes they wear. Thankfully, this is no longer the case these days, but royal ladies often did not speak at royal functions. Sometimes they conveyed their message of support for the country by wearing clothes by that country's designer or in the colors of that country's flag. Others strategically supported other women by wearing white, or wearing jewelry with the same stone as someone's birthstone. ......

What we did not know, however, was that in the 1980s Princess Diana used certain clothing to antagonize her husband Prince Charles' mistress, Camilla Parker-Bowles, and that Camilla clearly got the message.

Before Princess Diana married Prince Charles in 1981, Prince Charles had been involved with not one but two married women in the 1970s: Camilla (married to Andrew Parker-Bowles) and Dale "Kanga" Tryon (married to Lord Tryon). According to royal expert and author Tina Brown, the two women "stood by for the prince while their husbands looked away."

Of Tryon, Brown says, "Dale's frankness, warmth, and talent for country hospitality were the very qualities Charles admired in Camilla." It is said that Charles declared Dale "the only woman who understood me," not that Camilla was pleased that Dale mentioned it."

Tryon designed a clothing line known as the Kanga line (after her nickname) and was popular with a set called the "Sloan Rangers." Diana eventually married Charles in 1981 and within a few years resumed her affair with Camilla. According to Brown, in July 1985, "his jealousy of Camilla had reached its peak," the Daily Mail reported. At Live Aid, Diana wore "a rather curious polyester frock with polka dots and stripes."

"Princess Diana wore her [Tryon's] deep off-brand multi-patterned dress to drive Camilla crazy," Brown said. (11]

Diana's likely message 'I know you are another woman now, a woman Charles relies on to think she understands him, but remember when Charles had another woman he relied on to think she understood him more, not you! ....... Ouch. Sending subtle and not-so-subtle messages through clothing, saying everything without saying anything. Diana did not wear Tyrone's clothes because she had some kind of relationship with him, Brown says. For all the talk that Lady Tryon was a friend of Princess Diana's, she never even met Diana Spencer."

And it seems that Charles hurt Tryon just as he hurt Diana. According to Brown, Tryon believed that as his marriage to Diana fell apart, Charles would turn toward her. He did not, and she disintegrated, the Daily Mail reported. Eerily, Tryon died in 1997 at the young age of 49.