Princess Diana's Dress Found In A Thrift Store

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The advantages of buying in thrift stores are many: you recycle something that is already produced, you are not dressed like everyone else, you save money on the purchase and, who knows, you still find a treasure that belonged to a princess.

That is exactly what happened to a British woman who 24 years ago found a white ball gown that had belonged to Princess Diana at a thrift store in the town of Hereford. Read on to discover the rest of this story with a more than happy ending for the lucky one who found it.

According to the British newspaper The Mirror, the woman found this dress in 1996, when she worked part-time in a second-hand store that was near a mansion where one of the princess's childhood friends, Caroline Twiston-Davies, lived..

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The woman has not hesitated to sell it and this week it went up for auction at London fashion auction house Kerry Taylor Auctions, where it has sold for almost $ 200,000.

The white dress was the creation of David Emanuel, who was also responsible for the design of the princess's famous wedding dress and, as confirmed by the auction house, it was in perfect condition.