Princess Diana dress fetches $821,000 at auction

(CBS/AP) TORONTO - A dress worn by Princess Diana when she danced with John Travolta during a 1985 White House state dinner brought in the top bid at a Toronto auction.

The Edwardian-inspired gown, made of midnight-blue silk velvet with off-the-shoulder straps, sold for 800,000 Canadian dollars ($821,000).

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Prior to Thursday night's sale, auction house Waddington's had listed the estimated selling price of the dress between 800,000 Canadian dollars and 1 million Canadian dollars.

The dress, designed by Victor Edelstein, was among a number of the princess' well-known designer gowns sold at the auction.

Stephen Ranger, vice president of business development for Waddington's, says it will take a few days to compile a final tally of all 14 dresses sold at the collection.

Princess Diana died in a car crash in 1997. Her eldest son, Prince William, married the former Kate Middleton, now known as the Duchess of Cambridge, in April.