There's a wonderful reason Princess Diana stopped wearing gloves.

Being a part of the royal family means you’re part of a world that will consciously dictate your style. Tailored jackets, long shift dresses, conservative hats and the odd set of gloves are staples within the monarchy’s unofficial dress code.

So what happens when you buck that?

There’s a myriad of reasons the late Princess Diana was known as the people’s princess. Much like her sons would do some 20 years after her untimely death, she breathed life into a royal family that had a heightened sense of irrelevance about it.

Choosing not to wear gloves when meeting new people was just one of many deliberate decisions the Princess made to ensure she was both literally and metaphorically closer to the people.

As the hotly-anticipated exhibit Diana: Her Fashion Story opens this week at Kensington Palace, Eleri Lynn, the curator of the exhibit, told People there was a very specific reason Diana ignored royal protocol and stopped wearing gloves.

“She abandoned the royal protocol of wearing gloves because she liked to hold hands when visiting people or shake hands and have direct contact. She also stopped wearing hats because she said, ‘You can’t cuddle a child in a hat.’”

For context, you will notice other members of the royal family, including Queen Elizabeth, ensure a set of gloves are the accessory to almost all of their outfits.

More than that, Lynn argued Diana's sense of style was intricately linked to her passion for charity and desire to do good work.

"She had a great design eye and a real knack for fashion. Although she wanted to focus on her work, she wanted to use fashion to help that."