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Wedding dress of Lady Diana Spencer wedding fashion in the years after the wedding. Continued appreciation for the dress was not universal. One 2004 bridal magazine listed it as "too much dress, too little princess." Nevertheless, Elizabeth Emanuel noted in 2011 that she still received requests for replicas of Diana's dress. In his 2003 memoir, "A Royal Duty", Paul Burrell wrote that Diana had wanted the dress to be part of the fashion collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. The dress toured for many years with the exhibition "Diana: A Celebration", though generally it stayed for only part of the exhibit. Althorp House, Northampton was