Diana dress auctioned for Canadian $800,000

A dress worn by Princess Diana when she danced with John Travolta has sold for 800,000 Canadian dollars at a Toronto auction featuring some of her well-known designer gowns.

She wore the midnight-blue silk velvet dress designed by Victor Edelstein while taking a memorable spin on the dance floor with Travolta during a 1985 White House state dinner.

Before the sale, auction house Waddington's had listed the estimated selling price of the dress between 800,000 to one million Canadian dollars.

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.