One of the most iconic dresses of late Princess Diana is soon to be auctioned. The Victor Edelstein blue velvet evening gown, which Diana famously wore to a dinner at the White House in 1985, will be put on auction on December 9.
Diana wore the dress on multiple occasions, but most notably at a White House state dinner, where she famously danced with actor John Travolta to songs from his hit film ‘Saturday Night Fever’.
The off-the-shoulder velvet gown was paired with a sapphire, diamond and pearl choker necklace and sapphire and diamond earrings. The dress is reportedly estimated to sell for 250,000 to 350,000 pounds (or roughly $325,000 to $450,000).
However, this isn’t the first time that the gown has been put up for sale. Just two months before her death in 1997, Diana sold it for £100,000 to raise funds for the Royal Marsden Hospital Cancer Fund and the AIDS Crisis Trust. It remained with Florida-based businesswoman Maureen Dunkel until she went bankrupt in 2011 and finally sold it to a British man, who purchased it for his wife in 2013.