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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

Dress worn by Diana sells for record-breaking £900,000

Diana, Princess of Wales wearing the Jacques Azagury evening dress in 1985.
Diana, Princess of Wales wearing the Jacques Azagury evening dress in 1985. Photograph: Tim Graham/Tim Graham Photo Library/Getty Images

An evening dress worn by Diana, Princess of Wales in 1985 has sold at a Hollywood auction for almost $1.15m – more than 11 times its estimate and a record price for one of her dresses.

The black and blue ballerina-length velvet evening dress by the Moroccan-British fashion designer Jacques Azagury was sold at Julien’s Auctions in Hollywood for a total of $1,148,080 (£907,000).

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