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Ten of Princess Diana's iconic dresses, estimated to fetch up to £830,000, will go up for auction in London. The dresses that were last seen in a New York auction in 1997 two months before she died will be raising money for charity.

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Ten dresses that Princess Diana auctioned in 1997 just two months before her death to raise money for charity, are again to be auctioned off in London today (19 March).

The dresses will be auctioned at Kerry Taylor Auctions and are estimated to raise at least £830,000 for charity.

The most famous gown, is the midnight blue Victor Edelstein design worn by the princess at the White House hosted by President Ronald Reagan in 1985.

This gown will be the centrepiece of the biggest auction of its kind, as Princess Diana wore it when she danced with film star John Travolta and is estimated to raise between £200,000 - £3,000.

Among the beautiful collection, other gowns to be auctioned includes, the bottle green gown worn by the Princess for private entertaining, a Bruce Oldfield black evening gown worn for an official portrait by Lord Snowdon and the red crushed velvet dress worn by Diana to the premiere of the movie Back to the Future, all of which are estimated to fetch at least £50,000 each.

An exhibition of the dresses is still open to the public at the London fashion auctioneers until the icnic gowns have been sold.

The auction house have no idea who will be bidding for the dresses, but they are hopeful that a museum will buy them and they end up in the public realm.







(http://news.sky.com/story/1066291/princess-dianas-dresses-to-be-auctioned)

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