Lady Amelia Spencer walked the Palais des Festivals procession Thursday evening at Cannes alongside her twin sister, Lady Eliza Spencer, marking the 33‑year‑old twins’ third appearance on the festival red carpet.
The sisters arrived ahead of the screening in competition of Coward, a romantic drama directed by Lukas Dhont and starring Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne. Amelia wore a nude Zuhair Murad gown from the Fall 2026 collection — a £15,000 bejewelled dress embroidered with sequins and pearls laid out in a geometric pattern — while Eliza chose a black Zuhair Murad mermaid gown from the same collection with a lace bodice embroidered with pearls. Both sisters wore their hair in low buns, matching rosy lip looks and completed their outfits with Sahag Arslanian jewelry.
Amelia posted to Instagram as she prepared for the festival, writing, "Bonjour Cannes. Getting ready @carltoncannes wearing @zuhairmuradofficial & @sahag.arslanian with our dream team." The visit followed a short romantic getaway to Paris with her husband, Greg Mallett, where Amelia shared a photo captioned, "Moments in Paris @lemeuriceparis," after a stay at the Hôtel Le Meurice.
The twins are the nieces of Princess Diana and the first cousins of Prince William and Prince Harry; they work as models and are socialites in the U.K. Their Cannes outing reinforced a pattern: last year the sisters walked the red carpet in coordinated strapless gowns by Vera Wang for Pronovias, and on this same evening their eldest sister, Lady Kitty Spencer, appeared at Cannes in an electric purple gown.
The facts are simple and visible: two sisters, identical in age and familiar on European red carpets, wearing the new season from a high‑end designer while a film by a noted director screened in competition. Coward’s presence in the lineup — a romantic drama under the eye of a festival that balances cinema and spectacle — supplied the official reason for their procession to the Palais des Festivals; the Spencers supplied the fashion.
There is a friction between the event’s stated purpose and the images it produces. Cannes is a place where premieres and press screenings are the core business; it is also an annual stage for fashion statements that often eclipse the films in headlines and photographs. The twins’ precise styling — fall‑collection gowns, matched jewelry, identical low buns and rosy lips — read as a carefully curated public appearance that runs alongside the festival’s competitive screenings rather than inside them.
The immediate outcome is straightforward: Amelia and Eliza reinforced their recurring role at Cannes, marrying high fashion to a festival slot that put Lukas Dhont’s Coward before critics and audiences. Beyond the walk, the day’s details underline how their public lives have moved forward — Amelia, who married sports coach Greg Mallett in March 2023 in South Africa, and Eliza, who accepted a proposal from her boyfriend Channing Millerd last July — while keeping a visible profile on international stages.
In short, they were at Cannes to join the procession for a film in competition and to present themselves — again — as part of the festival’s inseparable mix of cinema and couture. Their presence answered the practical question of why they were there: not only to attend Coward’s screening, but to do so dressed as headline images for the evening.
