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Princess Diana's never-before-seen backup wedding gown

<p>The designer of Princess Diana's iconic wedding gown has revealed the details of a secret second dress that has never seen the light of day. </p> <p>In an exclusive interview with <em>Hello!</em> magazine, British designer Elizabeth Emmanuel revealed that she had planned for the worst in the lead up to the royal nuptials in 1981 by creating a backup dress. </p> <p>When Princess Diana married King Charles at St Paul’s Cathedral, she wore the now iconic voluptuous custom gown with a 25-foot train and 10,000 mother-of-pearl sequin and pearl embellishments. </p> <p>However, this gown may not have been the one debuted on the red-carpet aisle if news of it leaked before the big day. </p> <p>“The spare wedding gown was made just in case the secret of the real dress ever got out,” Emmanuel proclaimed. “Fortunately, it was never used.”</p> <p>Emmanuel drew inspiration from the 20-year-old’s initial design for the “spare,” pointing to a similar V-cut neckline adorned with a ruffle trim, puffy sleeves, and massive skirt in the never-before-seen sketch.</p> <p>The substitute was “pale ivory silk taffeta with embroidered scalloped details on the hem and sleeves” and detailed with delicate pearls along a tight-fitting bodice.</p> <p>To see the stunning draft design of the spare gown, click <a href="https://www.hellomagazine.com/brides/499047/princess-diana-spare-wedding-dress-unveiled-for-first-time-by-designer-exclusive/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p> <p>In the lead up to the wedding, strict security measures were put in place to prevent anyone from seeing the dresses before Diana walked down the aisle. </p> <p>“We had the dress stored every night in a metal cabinet guarded by two guards, Jim and Bert,” Elizabeth noted. “So there was somebody there 24 hours a day and we put shutters on all our windows, and we put false color threads in the rubbish bins because people were going through our bins.”</p> <p>Elizabeth, now 70-years-old, lost track of the alternate gown, which the Princess of Wales never actually tried on.</p> <p>Just before what would have been the royal pair’s 42nd wedding anniversary, Elizabeth told Hello!, “I don’t know where it went. It just disappeared.”</p> <p>However, when Princess Diana tragically died, her original gown was left to both Prince William and Prince Harry, as the historic garment now rests in Kensington Palace.</p> <p><em>Image credits: Getty Images </em></p>

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“He’s fully taken over”: Why Celine Dion's friends are worried about her “boy toy"

<p>Celine Dion is known as a music icon around the world, but there are concerns amongst her closest friends that she’s being too heavily influenced by her backup dancer and close friend Pepe Munoz.</p> <p>The 51-year-old <em>My Heart Will Go On</em> singer has been very close to Munoz after her husband René Angélil passed away at the age of 73 in 2016.</p> <p>Munoz has been described as her “boy toy” but Dion has said herself that he is gay and her “best friend”.</p> <p><em>The New York Post</em>'s <a rel="noopener" href="https://pagesix.com/2019/07/29/celine-dions-dancer-boy-toy-calling-the-shots-for-legendary-singer/" target="_blank">Page Six</a> has reported that some people in Dion’s inner circle fear that Munoz is “isolating” the star from her friends and “taking over” her life.</p> <p>“Pepe is like her boy toy who is really trying to take over. He’s isolating her and people are feeling it,” an anonymous friend told the publication.</p> <p>“She’s in love with this guy and listens to everything he’s saying.</p> <p>“People go to him when they have questions. He’s fully taken over.”</p> <p>Meanwhile, Dion shut down rumours of a relationship between herself and Munoz last year.</p> <p>“Pepe is gay,” she told <a rel="noopener" href="https://extratv.com/2019/04/04/celine-dion-takes-on-pepe-munoz-romance-rumors/" target="_blank"><em>Extra</em></a>. “At first, I think some people did not know that.”</p> <p>The iconic singer added, “The thing is that he’s my best friend and we dance together and he did so much for me and even just holding my hand… it’s something that I haven’t had for a long time.”</p> <p>She further defended herself to <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/8301240/celine-dion-hyde-park-concert-sexier/" target="_blank"><em>The Sun</em>’s</a> Dan Wooten in January saying that they’re just good friends.</p> <p>"The press said, ‘Oh my God, René just passed and now there’s another man.’ Yeah, there’s another man in my life, but not the man in my life," she said. "We’re friends, we’re best friends."</p> <p>Dion added, “Of course we hug and hold hands and go out, so people see that. I mean, he’s a gentleman. He’s giving me his hand to go out.”</p> <p>Scroll through the gallery above to see Dion and Munoz spending time together as best friends. </p>

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How to back up your iPad

<p>It's important to have a digital insurance policy should a tech disaster strike.</p> <p>One way to backup an iPad is to plug it into a computer running Apple's iTunes music software, which makes a complete backup of the tablet and stores it all away in hidden folders.</p> <p>This is handy if you've bought a new iPad and you're looking to copy across everything from your old iPad, but it's not very user-friendly if you need to dip into the backup to recover a single lost file.</p> <p>Another way to backup an iPad is to use Apple's iCloud online storage service. The benefit of this is that backups run automatically, uploading to the cloud. You can access and edit individual Keynote, Pages and Numbers files via a web browser on your computer – which could be a godsend if your iPad is lost, stolen or meets with some other disaster.</p> <p>Apple automatically enables iCloud backups on new iPads, but unfortunately it's not as set-and-forget as you might hope.</p> <p>By default, you only get 5GB of free iCloud storage, which you can chew through pretty quickly when it's uploading photos and movies. </p> <p>What's really stupid is that when the iPad calculates that its next backup will exceed 5GB, your backups stop dead. At this point the iPad doesn't try to back up as much as possible, it doesn't prioritise iWork productivity files or even backup newer versions of files which are already in the cloud. You'd expect better from the likes of Apple.</p> <p><strong>Trim your iCloud backups</strong></p> <p>The easiest way to keep your iCloud backup under 5GB is to tell the iPad to stop backing up the photos and videos in the Camera Roll.</p> <p>To do this, go to Settings, iCloud and disable Photos backup. If this isn't enough to get you under the 5GB limit, then tap on Storage and Manage Storage. Under backups you'll see the name of the iPad, tap here and then tap Show All Apps to see a complete list of apps which are backing up to iCloud and how much storage they're using.</p> <p>This list can take quite a while to calculate the storage needs for each app. If it seems stuck, start working down the list and disabling backups for apps that you're certain aren't important.</p> <p><strong>Backup elsewhere</strong></p> <p>You can back up iPad photos and videos to a range of third-party cloud storage services like Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Flickr and Amazon Cloud Drive – these can work out a lot more cost-effective than iCloud but you'll need to test the apps for a while to be sure they meet your needs.</p> <p>Another option is to back up the iPad's Camera Roll to your computer or Network Attached Storage drive using an iPad app like PhotoSync or FileExplorer. From here it can be easier to backup those files to the cloud for safe-keeping.</p> <p>Got any smart tech tips to share? Let us know in the comment section below.</p> <p><em>First appeared on <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Stuff.co.nz.</span></strong></a></em></p> <p><strong>Related links:</strong></p> <p><a href="/entertainment/technology/2016/06/the-best-technology-for-keeping-in-touch/"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The best technology for keeping in touch</strong></span></em></a></p> <p><a href="/entertainment/technology/2016/05/hints-for-using-gmail/"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">5 hints for using Gmail</span></em></strong></a></p> <p><a href="/entertainment/technology/2016/05/trick-to-dramatically-free-up-storage-on-your-iphone/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>Trick to dramatically free up storage on your iPhone</strong></em></span></a></p>

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DNA could become the new way to backup your tech devices

<p>A team of scientists has discovered that a teaspoonful of frozen DNA could be the storage system of the future. Books, photographs, websites, and other valuable information could be safely stored inside a tiny glass capsule of DNA, and remain undamaged for 2,000 years.</p><p>Bio-engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology compressed the Federal Charter, and stored it on 5,000 strings of DNA. They then heated the DNA to 70°C for a week to simulate the way it would age over 2,000 years.</p><p>They found that when they “unwrapped” the code, the information was perfectly preserved. With careful storage, they theorised, the lifespan of such storage methods could be extended to more than two million years.</p><p>The revelation comes just days after technology experts warned people to start printing and archiving their photographs and emails in the face of “digital decay.”</p><p><strong>Related links:</strong></p><p><em><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="/lifestyle/technology/2015/01/technological-advancements-from-the-past/" target="_blank">Things we sort of miss because of technological advances</a></span></strong></em></p><p><em><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="/lifestyle/technology/2015/02/how-to-unsubscribe-from-emails/" target="_blank">A guide to stop receiving unwanted emails</a></span></strong></em></p><p><em><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="/lifestyle/technology/2015/01/fix-computer-problems/" target="_blank">Some simple fixes for common computer problems</a></span></strong></em></p>

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