Showbiz | Celebrity News I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice . A collection of gowns, accessories, and keepsakes belonging to Diana , Princess of Wales, is set to go under the hammer.
The auction is billed as the most extensive collection of Diana’s personal belongings since she sold dozens of dresses during a New York charity auction in 1997, according to Julien’s Auctions . A pair of gowns sold during that auction, two months before her death, top the upcoming sale on June 27 at The Peninsula Beverly Hills in Los Angeles . A Murray Arbied midnight blue tulle strapless gown that Diana wore twice in 1986 — to the Phantom Of The Opera premiere and to a dinner with King Constantine of Greece — and to a Royal Opera House performance of Cinderella in 1987 has a top estimate of $400,000 (£315,000).
While a magenta silk and lace off-the-shoulder evening dress designed by Victor Edelstein, which Diana wore in London and Germany in 1987, shares the same ceiling estimate. “People will know that name because Victor Edelstein also designed the very famous navy blue dress Diana wore when she danced with John Travolta at the White House in 1985,” Martin Nolan, co-founder and executive director of Julien’s Auctions, told the PA news agency. Mr Nolan described Diana as a “princess of economics,” wearing gowns numerous times not only for environmental reasons but also to “use her celebrity status to sh.
