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By Jamie Murphy

The style may not take hold right away with the couturiers of New Bond Street. But Britain's intrepid Diana, 24, was fetching nonetheless in a bright orange survival suit and hard hat as she spent three hours last week inspecting Forties Charlie Platform, a giant offshore oil rig located 110 miles off Aberdeen, Scotland, in the frigid and fogbound waters of the North Sea. Seems that Husband Charles visited a British Petroleum rig earlier this year, and the oil company heard through the royal grapevine that Di was disappointed not to have been included. A BP helicopter was dispatched to Balmoral Castle, where the royal family summers. This time Charles was left home to baby-sit Princes Wills, 3, and Harry, 11 months. Aboard the platform, Diana chatted with the 150 "bears," or rig crew members, all of whom are male. Crooned one: "I can't tell you how beautiful she was."