First, she wore Marilyn Monroe’s famous gold dress that Monroe wore when she celebrated President John F Kennedy on his 45th birthday, in 1962, shortly before her death.
And now the American TV star Kim Kardashian has bought the famous piece of jewelry “Attallah’s Cross” which has been worn on several occasions by Princess Diana.
The piece of jewelry is a cross with amethysts and diamonds made by the British jeweler Garrard and was sold by the auction house Sotheby’s to Kardashian for just over SEK 2,090,000 in London on Wednesday. The price landed at more than double the asking price.
Princess Diana wore the piece to a charity gala in 1987 and it is rarely on the market according to Kristian Spofforth at Sotheby’s.
— Jewelery owned or worn by the late Princess Diana very rarely comes to market and especially not a piece like the Attallah Cross which is so colourful, bold and distinctive. To some extent, this unusual pendant is symbolic of the princess’s growing confidence in her choice of jewelry and jewelry, at that particular moment in her life, Spofforth said ahead of the auction.
Princess Diana died in a car accident in Paris in 1997.