....bridal gown returns to Harry and Wills after worldwide tour - 17 years to the day since their mother's tragic death

Until now, the dress has been in the possession of Diana’s brother....

Earl Spencer, who placed it at the centre of an exhibition called Diana: A Celebration. 

For two months every year it was held at Althorp, the family’s Northamptonshire estate. 
For the rest of the year the exhibition moved from country to country.

Most recently, it has been at the Cincinnati Museum Center in America, where visitors were charged £15 to see the gown, along with 28 other dresses and other personal artefacts. The exhibition closed two weeks ago after six months there.

Lord Spencer says Diana’s will stated that her belongings were to be ‘looked after’ by him until both of her sons turned 30, at which point they would transfer into their possession. Prince Harry will be 30 in two weeks’ time.

Over the years, proceeds from the exhibition have generated more than £1 million for the Diana, Princess  of Wales Memorial Fund, but it is thought this represents only a small margin of revenue. 

And it has been reported that Princes William and Harry have been unhappy over what has been viewed as the commercialisation of their mother’s death....[...]

  

       

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