The Princess of Wales, real name Diana Frances Spencer, loved cars and also liked to drive them herself. In May 1981, two years before her marriage to Charles, Diana received a gift from a future man in the form of a 3rd generation Ford Escort.
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He has now auctioned for 52,640 pounds, more than 1.5 million crowns. The original assumption was somewhere between 30 and 40 thousand pounds, ie in crowns approximately 890 thousand and 1.2 million.
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A spokeswoman for the auction hall said she had confirmed the royal origins with a set of vehicle history, registration number and many photographs of Princess Diana in the car.
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The car is allegedly in very good condition, it has a mileage of 132 thousand kilometers and Diana allegedly used it daily as an approximator between 1981 and 1982. Escort also has the original registration marks WEV 297W.
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On the hood is a car of a silver frog, which Diana received from her sister Sarah. It is said that he was supposed to remind the princess of a fairy tale about a beautiful girl who, with her kiss, managed to turn a frog into a prince.
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The car was out of the public interest for many years and no one had any idea where it ended. It was owned for 20 years by a woman who did not even tell her friends about it.
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