Princess Diana’s ‘Ford Escort’ nets $850,000 at auction
A ‘Ford Escort RS Turbo Series 1’ driven by the late Princess Diana sold for a whopping 724,500 pounds ($851,070) at an auction held at Britain’s Silverstone race circuit on Saturday.
Silverstone’s website describes the car as the Princess of Wales’s last Ford Escort, with 24,961 miles on the clock. It belonged to the Princess of Wales between 1985 and 1988.
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The princess was often seen driving the car around Chelsea and Kensington and covered 6,800 miles before returning it to Ford. After the return, the car had several owners before it returned to Ford, according to the Silverstone website.
Our car auction is underway!
Lot 491, the Diana Escort RS Turbo will cross the block in an hour or so.
We have live streaming on our website and YouTube and will also be live on Instagram. Make sure to tune in! #silverauctions #silverstoneclassic pic.twitter.com/4XvlN4QvB3
— Silverstone auctions (@silverstoneauc) August 27, 2022
The website does not mention the winner of the auction.
The ‘RS Turbo Series 1’ was usually made in white, but the royal family’s police guard asked that Diana’s be painted black ‘for discretion’, auctioneers said.
The 1985 Ford Escort RS Turbo, formerly owned by Diana, Princess of Wales, on display at Silverstone Race Circuit near Towcester, Northamptonshire, before going up for auction at the Silverstone Classics on Saturday. pic.twitter.com/SmJNReO7jU
—Joe Giddens (@jjgiddens) August 26, 2022
Having the princess drive the vehicle was “a very brave choice”, Arwel Richards, classic car specialist at Silverstone Auctions, told Reuters earlier this week.
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Next week marks 25 years since Diana died, aged 36, when a limousine in which she was a passenger crashed into a Paris tunnel as she was speeding away from paparazzi on motorcycles who were chasing her.
