Amal Clooney gave her favorite silhouette a royal upgrade at Buckingham Palace.
On June 25, the 47-year-old human rights lawyer and her husband, George Clooney, joined King Charles in celebrating this year’s recipients of the King’s Trust TK Maxx & Homesense Awards, which honors young people that have “overcome significant barriers to transform their lives and build brighter futures for themselves and their communities.” The charity (formerly known as the Prince’s Trust) first announced its partnership with Amal Clooney back in 2019, issuing the first Amal Clooney Women’s Empowerment Award in 2022.
Ahead of this year’s national awards ceremony, Amal Clooney arrived at the Buckingham Palace reception in an elegant black column dress with subtle bow-like details, which she paired with a golden evening clutch.
The silk satin dress featured an off-the-shoulder design that may remind readers of a certain silk dress worn by the late Princess Diana back in 1994, when Charles was still the Prince of Wales. Obviously, I’m referring to the asymmetrical Christina Stambolian dress she famously wore to a Vanity Fair party the very same evening Prince Charles admitted to his infidelity during a public television broadcast.
In fact, the comparisons to Diana’s iconic “Revenge Dress” dress pretty much end with the fabric and off-the-shoulder design. Unlike Clooney’s column dress, Diana’s look featured a sweetheart neckline, which was complimented by an extravagant pearl choker fashioned with an oval sapphire brooch once belonging to Queen Mary.
