Sam McKnight, who was appointed as the personal hairstylist of Princess Diana from 1990 until her tragic death in 1997, opened up about the first time he met the late Princess of Wales.

“The first time I met the Princess of Wales was on a shoot. This leggy blonde comes bouncing up the stairs, smiled and made us all melt, and it was Princess Diana, » he said in a new video for British Vogue, reports people.com.

McKnight said they had a “really lovely day” doing portraits for British Vogue, in which he played with her hair.

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“I made it look short under the tiara — I faked it a bit,” he said.

He says that soon after the photoshoot got over, Princess Diana asked McKnight how he would do her hair if she let him do whatever he wanted.

“I said, ‘I would cut it all off and just start again,’. It was the beginning of the ’90s and it was at the time that I was doing lots of shows and covers and a lot of the girls had short hair, and we were moving from the big frou-frou ’80s into the sharp, more androgynous, business chic of the ’90s, «  he said.

Diana quickly said that ” ‘Well, why don’t you just cut it off now?’ So I cut it off then and we never looked back,” McKnight shared.

Last year, McKnight worked with Emma Corrin who played Princess Diana in Netflix ‘The Crown’. They worked together for a Vogue cover.