As expected, the glamorous third wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy stole the show from him and Queen Elizabeth when the First French Couple visited Windsor Castle on Wednesday.

From her Christian Dior outfits to her controversial nude photos, Carla Bruni was the talk of a royalty-obsessed nation that compared the 40-year old former supermodel to two global icons of beauty and style - Princess Diana and Jacqueline Kennedy.

Sporting a John Galliano purple overcoat, paparazzi's had a grand time clicking away at the first couple as they bade the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh farewell.

Bruni's royal bearing brought back many Britons to the time Diana Spencer was introduced as Prince Charles' future wife that led to magazine covers and media mileage. The Italian model has also been compared to American First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, who wowed Londoners on her visit to the U.K. capital in 1962.

But while Prince Charles reportedly resented Dian's fame, handlers of Sarkozy said it would do his sagging popularity well to ride on the new first lady's glory. A presidential aide told The Telegraph, "We hope that she will win the hearts of the French people, just as Lady Diana won the hearts of the English."

Apparently she has got the approval of Britons, despite the splash of her 1993 nude photographs on British dailies a day before her arrival at Heathrow Airport.