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Princess Di Underwear Ad Has Brits in Snit

She's barely dressed ... and why is she playing a cello?

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 2, 2010 8:46 AM CDT

(Newser) – A lingerie company in China found an odd way to mark the Aug. 31 anniversary of Princess Diana’s death: with an ad showing the beloved Di in a bra and underwear. Jealousy International’s ad for “Diana underwear” (yes, really) uses the tag line, “Feel the romance of British royalty,” and is running on billboards in China. In addition to her skivvies, the young Di—or a lookalike—is shown with … a cello.

I “couldn't quite believe what I was seeing,” a British journalist, who saw the ad at an airport in China, tells the Daily Mail. “I thought, surely not, because it was rolling quite quickly. So I waited to check when it came up again and, sure enough, there was an image of Diana.” Click here to see the ad.

The Princess of Wales attends a banquet at the president's palace in Yaounde, Cameroon, wearing a blue Catherine Walker dress, March 1990.
The Princess of Wales attends a banquet at the president's palace in Yaounde, Cameroon, wearing a blue Catherine Walker dress, March 1990.   (Getty Images)
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virushack
Sep 3, 2010 8:31 AM CDT
Oh stop making things up. this add is more then a month an half ago. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ochblog/
lumina
Sep 2, 2010 11:12 AM CDT
IDIOT!!
youngblood
Sep 2, 2010 9:33 AM CDT
Big deal these so called royals never worked a day in their life just a bunch a lepers sucking of the citizens money to live a lavish life and why should they be respected.

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