Princess Diana laughs hysterically at the sight of Prince Charles wearing a hard hat

‘This was their happy times’: Recently unearthed footage shows Princess Diana laughing hysterically at sight of Prince Charles in a hard hat during the couple’s 1985 royal tour of Australia

  • The short video is taken from a news report of the couple’s 1985 trip to Australia 
  • During the two-week trip they visited the Alcoa Aluminium Smelter Project 
  • The royals had to wear hard hats for the visit which Diana found very amusing 

Princess Diana is seen giggling hysterically at the sight of her then husband Prince Charles wearing a hard hat in archive footage that has recently re-emerged online. 

The short video is taken from a news report of the couple’s 1985 trip to Australia, which was made to celebrate the state of Victoria’s 150th anniversary.

During the two-week trip they visited the Alcoa Aluminium Smelter Project in Portland where the royals had to don hard hats to walk around the centre. 

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Princess Diana is seen hysterically laughing at the sight of her husband Prince Charles in a hard hat in sweet footage that has recently re-emerged online.

The short video is taken from a news report of the couple's 1985 trip to Australia which was made to celebrate the state of Victoria's 150th anniversary

The short video is taken from a news report of the couple’s 1985 trip to Australia which was made to celebrate the state of Victoria’s 150th anniversary

It was Diana’s second royal tour of Australia, taking place two years after her first visit, which was recently fictionalised on Netflix’s The Crown. 

The couple, who married in 1981 and were divorced in 1996, also returned for a third visit in 1988. 

Footage shows Diana begin to laugh before covering her mouth to try and stifle the giggles.  

As he greets workers at the site, Charles jokingly asks: ‘Do your wives always laugh at you when you’ve got your hat on?’ 

The sweet moment that was caught on camera delighted royal fans in the comments. One replied: ‘I remember Harry saying in a documentary, how his mother had the most amazing laugh. She surely does!’

‘This was their happy times,’ another said. ‘I love the way she laughed.’

Footage shows Diana begin to laugh before covering her mouth to try and stifle the giggles

Footage shows Diana begin to laugh before covering her mouth to try and stifle the giggles

During the two-week trip they visited the Alcoa Aluminium Smelter Project in Portland where they had to don hard hats to walk around the centre

During the two-week trip they visited the Alcoa Aluminium Smelter Project in Portland where they had to don hard hats to walk around the centre

As he greets workers at the site, Charles jokingly asks: 'Do your wives always laugh at you when you've got your hat on?'

As he greets workers at the site, Charles jokingly asks: ‘Do your wives always laugh at you when you’ve got your hat on?’

A third wrote: ‘Only Diana can make a hard hat fashionable.’

It comes after more footage reemerged of another of the couple’s trips to Australia in 1988 where Diana is seen playing the piano.

The short video is taken from a news report of their visit to Melbourne.  

Prince Charles and Princess Diana at the 1985 Melbourne Cup during their second trip to Australia

Prince Charles and Princess Diana at the 1985 Melbourne Cup during their second trip to Australia 

It comes after more footage reemerged of another of the couple's trips to Australia in 1988 where Diana is seen playing the piano

It comes after more footage reemerged of another of the couple’s trips to Australia in 1988 where Diana is seen playing the piano 

On their last day in the city, the royals visited Melbourne College of Arts where the princess delighted well-wishers by playing part of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, apparently without any sheet music.

After some initial hesitation, Princess Diana takes a seat at the piano and begins to play the concerto, which the newsreader describes as ‘complicated’. 

Diana and Charles visited Australia in 1988 to mark the bicentenary of the arrival of the first fleet of British ships in Sydney.