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The look might not sound scandalous by todays standards, but when Princess Diana wore the little black Christina Stambolian cocktail dress to a London event on the same day that her husband, Prince Charles, admitted to the world that hed been having an affair, she may as well have been gleefully bashing the princes car windows in with a baseball bat, la Beyonc during the Lemonade era