In 2020, the dress was put on display at Kensington Palace, the royal residence where Diana lived for more than 15 years. nonprofit that manages palaces across Britain. What is known as the “Travolta dress” most recently changed hands in 2019, when a private owner sold the gown for $347,000 to Historic Royal Palaces, the U.K. The gown, also designed by Victor Edelstein, sold for $222,500. The bestselling dress that night was the gown Diana wore when she danced with John Travolta at the White House in 1985. It turned out to be a success, raising nearly $3.3 million for cancer and AIDS charities. She modeled many of the gowns-including the Victor Edelstein dress up for sale-in the Vanity Fair photo shoot to publicize the auction. The sale was widely seen as the princess making a new start after officially divorcing the now King Charles III the year before. The dress first made its way into private hands in 1997, when, just months before Diana died in a car accident, she set up a charity auction with Christie’s to sell off 79 of her most iconic gowns.
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