Princess Diana’s famous Swan Lake pendant up for auction

The famous pendant and earrings of the Diana Princess of Walesgame known as “Swan Lake”, goes up for auction on June 27 in a sale organized by the Guernsey’s house of NY and that will thus close a story in which even the war of Ukraine.

The set, which will come out at an estimated price of between 5 and 15 million dollars, contains part of Diana’s tragic story, since at the time of her death it was in the hands of the jeweler who had made it, and it was destined to be a gift from Dodi al Fayed, which could never be carried out.

Lady Di only wore the pendant in public once, during the opening of the Royal Albert Hall’s 1997 ballet session for a performance of “Swan Lake” -hence his nickname-, but just after that function the jeweler of the crown, from the London house Garrard, claimed the necklace to be able to complete the two matching earrings.

At the time of Diana and Al Fayed’s death, the set was in Garrard’s workshop, so Diana was never able to put the earrings on.

Guernsey’s reports on its website that the British Royal House granted Garrard permission to sell the set two years later and he contacted Guernsey’s in New York to do so, on the condition that part of the sale go to the campaign against Unicef ​​anti-personnel mines.

The first buyer was a Houston tycoon who had made his fortune in retail, James McIngvale, who bought it for his daughter to wear at her wedding, but a decade later, after a period of financial straits, McIngvale returned to Guernsey’s to resell it.

The next buyer was a Ukrainian family – their identity is unknown – who had it in their possession for twelve years, but with the Russian invasion they put it up for sale again to keep their fortune afloat, and Guernsey’s assures on this occasion that “part of the sale will go to the reconstruction of Ukraine.”

The famous pendant is made up of eleven marquise diamonds of 7.71 carats and three more of 0.88 carats, 164 diamonds of 42.35 carats, as well as five matching 12-millimeter cultured pearls. As for the earrings, they consist of six 1.87-carat marquise diamonds, 30 9.38-carat diamonds and two matching 12-millimeter cultured pearls.

Source: EFE