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Records lying in a dusty box among hundreds of items to be sold at a charity sale at Cholmondeley Castle in Cheshire in 2004 has no label or indicator of their remarkable history.
John Bingley chanced upon them, and for the unassuming sum of £6 bought them from an unnamed, female seller who failed to give reason for the sale.
Bingley, who resides in Spain, says: ‘It was nearly going-home time when I picked up this dusty old box of records. I noticed they had the name Diana written on them, and obviously she had a very distinctive signature, which I recognised ...
‘The lady selling them confirmed they had been the Princess of Wales’s and said they had been in the big house – meaning the castle – for many years. She said there had been arguments at school over who owned them, which was why Diana had signed them. I had most of the records in my collection already but I knew I had to buy them.’
After leaving them to gather dust in the same box for eight years, Bingley decided to auction the collection last month.
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