{"id":238867,"date":"2025-07-05T01:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238867\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T01:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:29:09","slug":"princess-diana-auction-raises-5-million-in-beverly-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238867\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Diana Auction Raises $5 Million in Beverly Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Princess Diana, the beloved and influential<\/a> member of the British royal family, left an indelible mark not only through her humanitarian work but also through her remarkable sense of style. As evidenced by Julien\u2019s Auctions June 26 sale titled \u201cPrincess Diana\u2019s Style and A Royal Collection,\u201d Diana Spencer\u2019s memorabilia remain in high demand nearly three decades after her passing. The $5 million sale<\/a> was held at The Peninsula Beverly Hills and featured clothing, shoes, handbags, and hats worn by the Princess of Wales, as well as fashion illustrations, signed photographs, handwritten letters, wedding ephemera, and more. Over 200 of Diana\u2019s items were sold at the auction, in addition to couture garments from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, pieces that belonged to Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen Mother, and precious artifacts dating back to the 19th and early 20th centuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of the 325 lots, the 1988 Bellville Sassoon floral day dress, known as the \u201ccaring dress,\u201d was the most anticipated, selling for $520,000. The blue crepe-de-chine knee-length dress is decorated with pastel flowers in shades of pink, yellow, and blue, with a gathering at the waistline.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was seen photographed in it in Brazil when she went to a children\u2019s hospital,\u201d Michael Amato, a fashion specialist at Julien\u2019s, told the Courier. \u201cShe wore it because she loved it, and it was very comforting because kids actually felt a little less intimidated because it was so soft and tactile.\u201d The princess was photographed wearing the dress in public at least seven times, often during official visits to hospitals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Renae Plant, an Australian native and founder and curator of The Princess Diana Museum, submitted the winning bid for the caring dress. Plant told People magazine that she and her husband took out a fourth mortgage on their home to get the dress.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other standout pieces in the auction included a 1981 John Boyd pink straw archer-style hat, worn for her honeymoon send-off in 1981, and a 1986 Catherine Walker evening gown with cream silk crepe embroidered falcons, made custom for her to wear during the 1986 Gulf Tour. The hat went for $26,000, and the falcon dress for $455,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Beverly Hills-based Julien\u2019s Auctions, this marked the largest collection of her iconic wardrobe ever assembled for auction. A portion of the sales from Princess Diana items will benefit Muscular Dystrophy UK. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Last December, Princess Diana\u2019s 1985 Jacques Azagury evening dress made history at the Julien\u2019s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies\u2019 Hollywood Legends sale, going for $1,148,080.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Diana, the beloved and influential member of the British royal family, left an indelible mark not only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-238867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}