{"id":303556,"date":"2026-10-10T03:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303556\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T03:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:58:10","slug":"story-behind-princess-diana-and-her-iconic-kelly-green-philadelphia-eagles-letterman-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303556\/","title":{"rendered":"Story behind Princess Diana and her iconic Kelly green Philadelphia Eagles letterman jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LONDON (WPVI) &#8212; Inside Cafe Diana, a famous watering hole in the shadow of London&#8217;s Kensington Palace, you&#8217;ll find photos of the people&#8217;s Princess plastering the walls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In one photo, Lady Di is representing the City of Brotherly Love, sporting a Kelly green Eagles jacket in the early &#8217;90s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She also wore the look on the cover of People magazine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Stephen Liddell is the owner of Ye Olde England Tours in London. He says Diana wasn&#8217;t much of a football fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Princess Diana wasn&#8217;t exactly a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles or the NFL. Not many people were into the NFL at the time, but she really loved the colors of the kit,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It was actually a chance meeting with a member of the Eagles organization at Princess Grace of Monaco&#8217;s funeral that led to the creation of the custom coat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The style has always remained popular, with Mitchell and Ness recreating the iconic look in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Today, the replica jacket will run you $400.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">It&#8217;s believed Princess Diana&#8217;s original coat remains in her private collection.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (WPVI) &#8212; Inside Cafe Diana, a famous watering hole in the shadow of London&#8217;s Kensington Palace, you&#8217;ll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[124846,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-303556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-124846","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}