Kim Kardashian wears Princess Diana’s necklace after purchasing it for £163,000-Laura Harman-Entertainment – Metro

Kim Kardashian has been snapped wearing Princess Diana’s amethyst necklace (Picture: Getty)

Kim Kardashian has been seen wearing the iconic Amethyth cross worn by Princess Diana several times in the 80s.

Kim, 44, has stepped out in an iconic necklace once worn by Diana, the late Princess of Wales.

The reality TV star was snapped wearing a plunging white Gucci gown with a huge cross necklace adorned with diamonds and amethysts while attending the LACMA Art+Film Gala in Los Angeles.

The 1920s pendant was made by luxury jewellery designer Garrard, which Princess Diana wore on many occasions.

Diana most famously wore the necklace at a charity gala evening on behalf of birthright at Garrard in 1987.

However the Princess went for a rather different style than Kim, wearing a long velvet purple and navy gown with a large ruff around the neck.

Kim looked incredible in a white gown (Picture: Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for LACMA)

The Princess looked stunning at the event (Picture: Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)

Kim purchased the necklace in 2023 (Picture: PA)

In January 2023 Kim bought the necklace called the Attallah Cross at Sotheby’s in London.

The cross has a total diamond weight of approximately 5.25 carats and was notably worn by the Princess in October 1987.

 Kim’s rep bought it for £163,800 – more than double its pre-auction estimate. 

Businessman Naim Attallah first bought the cross from Garrard in the 1980s. The businessman was friends with Diana and lent it to her on several occasions over the years.

Kim bought the necklace for £163,800 (Picture: Lisa/Shutterstock)

This isn’t the first time the A-lister has purchased an iconic fashion item (Picture: Chris Polk/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)

This isn’t the first time the reality star has purchased a piece of fashion history. The star faced heavy criticism in 2022 for wearing Marilyn Monroe’s famous nude-coloured dress to the Met Gala.

The reality TV star shed 16 pounds to fit into the dress after Ripley’s Believe It Or Not agreed to loan it to her for the red carpet.

She revealed that she feared damaging the iconic dress at the event and only wore it for minutes on the red carpet before changing into a replica.

‘All of this, the losing the weight, dyeing the hair for 30 hours, leaving the hotel in a robe, getting there, changing on the red carpet, just walking to the top of the red carpet, and then changing again into a replica of the dress – because we can’t risk sitting in it and eating dinner – is all for maybe 10 minutes of my life, just on the red carpet. That’s it,’ she revealed on The Kardashians.

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