Forty years ago, in 1981, Prince Carlo and Diana Spencer officially got engaged. As a wedding gift, in addition to the ring, Lady D received from the future bridegroom a Ford Escort Ghia silver color which he drove for about a year (he changed it in 1982, when his firstborn was born William).
Diana’s car certainly could not go unnoticed: on the hood was a silver frog. Lady Sarah Spencer had given it to his younger sister like symbol of his “fairytale wedding” prince cabbage.
Diana decided to sell the car in August 1982. It was bought by a great admirer of hers, who has kept her as one ever since precious relic and for the past 20 years he has parked it in a garage from which he only took it out from time to time to keep the engine and tires alive.
Now the Princess’s Ford Escort (complete with a copy of the silver frog) is about to end at auction. It will be auctioned on June 29 at the Reeman Dansie in Colchester. Still working, original license plate and upholstery behind it 40 years of life and 51 thousand kilometers, the car in the UK has already reached a valuation of over 46 thousand euros. But experts predict that the starting figure will be vastly exceeded. Because the value of that car, as well as historical, is linked to the memory of Diana. And at the time when Carlo, asking her in marriage, made the world dream of the beginning of a fairy tale. Lady Sarah Spencer believed it too, when she had given her younger sister that silver frog which must have reminded her of “the fairy tale of the beautiful girl whose kiss transformed a frog into a prince.”
As is well known, things went differently. The engagement between Charles and Diana was the beginning of an unhappy and “a little too crowded” marriage (cause Camilla Parker Bowles) which ended in a stormy divorce in 1996.
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