Style icon Princess Diana’s many personal belongings, including designer dresses and more, are set to be auctioned soon. But the collection won’t include any of her coveted coats.
The auction, which will be held on June 26, will feature over 300 of Diana’s personal belongings, except her coats.
Martin Nolan, co-founder and executive director of Julien’s Auction, who is holding Princess Diana’s Style & A Royal Collection, has revealed why that is.
“We learnt through this how generous Diana was, always giving items. And you never see a coat from Diana come to auction because she used to get her butler or her staff or friends to drive around London [in] January, February, [in the] freezing cold,” he shared, per Daily Express.
He shared that the former Princess of Wales was generous and handed out her coats to needy people in winter.
He added, “She’d find homeless people and give them her coats. That’s how she was — without any spectacle or whatever.”
Elsewhere, Nolan shed light on Diana’s self-expression through her dresses.
Sharing insight on a 1986 Evening Gown, “This beautiful dress was designed by Catherine Walker, with the falcons in migration mode all the way down the back. She wore this to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on a royal visit back in the late 1980s.”
“When Diana did her own auction in 1997, just two months before she suddenly passed away, this was one of the dresses that she sold for charity,” he continued.
“She sold over 70 gowns at the behest of her son, Prince William, and to raise money for her charities. She raised over $3 million, which was huge at that time,” he shared.
Princess Diana died in 1997 after a horrific car crash.
