A ‘Ford Escort RS Turbo Series 1’ that was driven by the late Princess Diana fetched a whopping 724,500 pounds ($851,070) at an auction held at Britain’s Silverstone racing circuit on Saturday.
Silverstone’s website describes the car as the Princess of Wales’ 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 clocked up 6,800 miles in it before returning it to Ford. After the return, the car had multiple owners before making its way back to Ford, according to Silverstone website.
Our car auction is well underway!
Lot 491, the Diana Escort RS Turbo is heading across the block in an hour or so.
We have livestream on our website and YouTube and we will also be going live on Instagram. Make sure you tune in! #silverstoneauctions #silverstoneclassic pic.twitter.com/4XvlN4QvB3
— Silverstone Auctions (@silverstoneauc) August 27, 2022
The website makes no mention of the auction winner.
The ‘RS Turbo Series 1’ was usually made in white but the royal family police guard asked for Diana’s to be painted black ‘for discretion’, the auctioneers said.
The 1985 Ford Escort RS Turbo previously owned by Diana, Princess of Wales, on display at the Silverstone Race Circuit near Towcester, Northamptonshire, before it goes under the hammer on Saturday at Silverstone Classics pic.twitter.com/SmJNReO7jU
— Joe Giddens (@jjgiddens) August 26, 2022
For the princess to 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 in a Paris tunnel as it sped away from paparazzi giving chase on motorbikes.
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