Princess Diana’s dresses to be sold

Ten dresses belonging to the late Princess Diana are to be sold in London next month. The collection, due to go under the hammer on March 19, is believed to be worth at least £600,000.

These elegant couture creations were made by some of her favorite designers - Zandra Rhodes, Catherine Walker, Bruce Oldfield and Victor Edelstein. Some of the gowns were worn for official state visits to Austria, Australia, Brazil, India, South Korea and the United States of America. The collection includes a midnight blue velvet gown by Victor Edelstein which Diana wore to a 1985 state dinner at the White House where she twirled around the dance floor with "Saturday Night Fever" star Travolta.

At Diana's request, the ten dresses were originally sold in a charity auction in New York in June 1997, just two months before she died. Florida-based businesswoman Maureen Dunkel bought the dresses, along with four others. She was forced to put them up for auction in 2011 after she went bankrupt.

The dresses will sold be sold in London at Kerry Taylor Auctions on March 19th.