![]() ![]() Also killed was her companion, Emad Mohamed al-Fayed, who was known as Dodi. The earrings had been finished, but the completed set had not been sent to her when she was killed in a car crash in Paris not quite three months later. “He hadn’t finished the earrings,” Ettinger said, “and in order to create the earrings to be a perfect match, he needed the necklace in hand.” Soon after the night at the ballet, the crown jeweler asked Diana to send the necklace back. His presale estimate is $5 million to $15 million. “It is said that she was photographed more on that evening than at any other time except her wedding,” said Arlan Ettinger, the president of Guernsey’s auction house in New York, which will auction the necklace on June 27 at the Pierre Hotel. And it was something to see: Each pearl is just under a half-inch in size, and the diamonds were dazzling. The appearance was one of her last, and the only time she wore the necklace in public. ![]() It was nearly a year after she and Charles had divorced amid a remarkable duel for attention and approval. Diana, and the 178 diamonds and five South Sea pearls in the necklace, were photographed endlessly when she wore it to a performance of the ballet “Swan Lake” in London on June 3, 1997. ![]()
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