An iconic velvet gown wore by Princess Diana to dance with John Travolta at the White House failed to sell at auction - despite expecting to fetch £250,000.
The off-the-shoulder Victor Edelstein dress of the late Princess got the cold shoulder at auction, the Kerry Taylor house said.
Diana wore the gown when she and then husband Prince Charles attended a state dinner hosted by the late president Ronald Reagan on November 9, 1985.
Diana was photographed dancing with Travolta to the song "You Should be Dancing" from his film "Saturday Night Fever".
Estimated at £250,000-£350,000 ($324,000-$454,000), the dress did not even attract a reserve, or minimum, bid of £200,000.
Before the sale, auctioneer Kerry Taylor said there had been buyer interest from Britain and the United States.
She said the dress had previously been bought in 2013 for £200,000 'by a romantic gentleman who wanted basically to cheer up his wife'.
Daily Mail quoted her saying: 'But since then it's spent most of its time locked away in a wardrobe and now as a couple they feel they really want this to go out into the public domain.'
According to AFP report, Two other dresses owned by Diana fared much better however. A long-sleeved dress from 1986 by Katherine Cusack, also in midnight-blue velvet, was snapped up for £60,000, or £71,000 with fees, which was double the estimated maximum value.
A Catherine Walker navy wool day dress from around 1989, that Diana wore in private, according to Kerry Taylor, was bought for £35,000 or almost six times its estimated value.
The Edelstein dress was part of a collection of outfits that Diana herself sold for charity at auction in June 1997, just weeks before she died in a car crash in Paris.
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