NY.- Guernsey’s New York auction house reported that the sale of a necklace that Princess Diana wore shortly before she died, and her matching earrings, will not take place tomorrow, as planned, since the jewels have found a buyer through private channels.
The diamond and pearl necklace and earrings, known as the “Swan Lake” set and esteemed in up to 15 million dollars (13.7 million euros), are the work of the British Royal Jeweler and it is speculated that they were commissioned by Dodi Fayed, Diana’s partner, who died with her in the 1997 accident.
But the auction, which was announced a month ago by Guernsey’s and was to be held at the Hotel Pierre, has been “cancelled” because the jewels “have been sold” by a “private agreement,” the company said in an email to EFE today. Director of the house, Susan Jaffe, who did not specify details about the price or the buyer, nor when they were sold.
The Princess of Wales wore the necklace of 175 diamonds and 5 natural pearls in the British National Ballet’s “Swan Lake” performance that opened the 1997 season, when she was photographed more than at any other time in her life. , except for her wedding to Prince Charles.
After wearing it, Diana returned the necklace to the Royal Jeweler to finish making the earrings, but when the set was ready, the accident took place in which the princess, her partner and the driver died, on August 31, 1997, in Paris.
The jewels were auctioned by Guernsey’s in December 1999 and sold to American businessman James McIngvale, who in turn resold them through that same house a decade later privately.
The “Swan Lake” complex has since been in the hands of a “prominent Ukrainian family” who recently turned to Guernsey’s to sell them and allocate part of the proceeds to “reconstruction” the country, which has been going through a war for a year. past after the invasion of Russia.
