Princess Diana’s famous sports dress has just sold for £352,000

An extremely exciting auction took place in Beverly Hills on Friday. Numerous personal items belonging to the late Princess Diana of Wales were sold and some of them were exchanged for extraordinary sums.

The auction featured 200 items from members of the royal family, but most of the pieces came from Diana’s extensive collection.

The mother of Prince William and Harry is considered the most famous fashion icon in the world, so it’s no surprise that most of her dresses were the most popular and attracted the highest bids. The auction was titled “Princess Diana’s Elegance and a Royal Collection” and included some of her all-time favorite fashion houses: Victor Edelstein, Caroline Charles and Catherine Walker.

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Speaking of Catherine Walker, a pink floral silk shirt dress that Diana wore to Prince William’s sports day at Richmond Stadium in 1988 and when she left Prince Harry’s school in Notting Hill in 1992 sold for £352,000. Wow!

A strapless magenta silk and lace evening dress by Victor Edelstein, worn by Diana in London and Germany in 1987, topped the auction at £720,000, a whopping four and a half times the original lower estimate.

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You may be familiar with Edelstein’s work – he also designed the famous navy blue dress Diana wore when she danced with John Travolta at the White House in 1985. An iconic moment and an iconic dress.

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Visually, the star of the show was a Murray Arbeid dress. His midnight blue strapless gown was one of Diana’s favorites and she wore it twice. Once in 1986 to the premiere of The Phantom of the Opera and then in 1987 to a performance of Cinderella at the Royal Opera House. The dress had a dropped waist, a huge taffeta skirt and the bodice was covered in star-studded sequins. Stunning.

This dress sold for an incredible £617,000.