There's a reason why the first Monday in May is considered the most fashionable night of the year.
The Met Gala, co-chaired by Vogue's Anna Wintour, sees A-listers flocking to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art to walk the most-watched red carpet; while designers grasp at any opportunity to have their garments worn on the world's chicest stage.
Lady Gaga attends The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City.
Proving it's not just fashion royalty that get an invite, real-life royalty have on occasion received a golden ticket to the annual fundraising gala for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.
From Princess Beatrice's striking Alberta Ferretti gown to Charlotte Casiraghi's sky-high platform heels, HELLO! revisits all the times royalty has attended the Met Gala.
Perhaps most memorably, Princess Diana attended in 1995, looking stunning in a lace-trimmed Dior dress. Her stunning silk slip dress was made by John Galliano for his first couture collection for Christian Dior.
Hinting that more royalty could be set to grace the Met Gala's stage, Anna Wintour once told the Today show: "I would love to have the Duchess of Sussex and the [Princess of Wales] together," she said. "That would be my dream couple. They could leave their husbands at home. It’s the two of them I want,|" referring to Meghan Markle and Princess Kate.
Princess Beatrice surprised by attending in 2018, wearing a stunning Alberta Ferretti gown for the theme, which was 'Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination'.
In perhaps her most glorious Met Gala moment yet, Charlotte graced the carpet at the 2023 Met Gala Celebrating "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty" wearing a black lace dress.
Germany's Princess Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis was a vision in gold as she brushed shoulders with fashion royalty in 2016, where she wore Mary Katranzou.
Returning to the stage a year later, Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis was angelic in pink to attend the Met Gala in 2017. The theme was "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between".
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