Princess Diana – who preferred to drive her own car, with a security guard in the passenger seat – drove the Escort from 1985 to 1988 and was photographed with it outside shops and restaurants.
A look back at actors who have played Princess Diana for film and TV. in the 1980s sold for over $850,000 at auction Saturday, just days before the 25th anniversary of her death.
Britain and Diana’s admirers worldwide are preparing to mark a quarter century since her death on Aug. 31, 1997.Diana drove the Escort from 1985 to 1988. She was photographed with it outside boutique shops in Chelsea and restaurants in Kensington. She preferred to drive her own car, with a member of her security team in the passenger seat.
Diana died in a car crash, along with two other passengers. She was traveling with her boyfriend at the time, Egyptian filmmaker Dodi Al-Fayed. After dining at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, Princess Diana and Fayed left the hotel, hounded by paparazzi and accompanied by French driver Henri Paul and Diana’s bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones.
Fayed and Paul died at the scene, but Diana died several hours later in the hospital as a result of crash-related injuries, History.com writes. The only survivor of the crash was Rees-Jones.
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