The figure of Princess Diana continues to arouse great interest years after her tragic death.
Recently, a little-known photograph of the young Lady Di from 1978 has been auctioned for a substantial sum, demonstrating once again the appeal that the personal objects of the People’s Princess retain among collectors.
Princess Diana photo auction
The snapshot in question shows a 16-year-old Diana Spencer acting as a bridesmaid at her sister Jane’s wedding to Robert Fellowes at London’s Westminster Abbey.
In the image, captured a year after Diana met Prince Charles, she wears a long red and white print dress and holds a bouquet of roses looking innocent and unrecognizable.
The photograph was recently auctioned by Hansons Auctioneers for a sum of 7,000 pounds (about US$7,500) along with a personal letter from Princess Diana to her royal designer Bill Pashley and thirteen Christmas cards she sent him between 1981 and 1994.
In the letter, written three weeks after her lavish wedding to Charles in 1981, Diana jokes about how the weather at Balmoral has turned her tan “light blue” after the honeymoon.
In it she also expresses her gratitude to the designer for making her outfits for the stay at the Scottish castle.
The auction of these intimate objects related to Lady Di is part of the current fever for everything related to the mother of Princes William and Harry.
Last September, her iconic sheep sweater sold for more than $1 million at a Sotheby’s auction, breaking the world record for a knitted garment.