Princess Diana’s childhood book Noddy Goes to Toyland sells for more than £3,000 😮😮😮

The first edition of the Enid Blyton classic was sold along with other Noddy titles which belonged to Diana’s sisters

A Noddy book that belonged to Princess Diana as a young child has sold for more than £3,000.

Diana wrote her name in bold red ink in the 1960s on a ‘This book belongs to…’ label inside the hardback edition of Noddy Goes to Toyland by Enid Blyton.

The book was owned by the Spencer family until 1975, when the family moved out of the home they rented from the Royal familyand it was gifted to a royal footman who had young children.

The book, a 1949 first edition, was sold along with hardback editions of Noddy Had An Adventure and You Funny Little Noddy, which were owned by Diana’s older sisters,Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes.

Footman Ian Scott Hunter was given the books, which come in a custom fitted presentation box, by the housekeeper of Park House on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, where Diana grew up.

By 1975, the Spencer children had outgrown the books and Mr Hunter had young children of his own so they made a natural gift.

Five years later Diana met and married heir to the throne Prince Charles.

The three books have since passed through the hands of several private collectors and have now sold for £3,084 to a private UK collector.

Richard Davie from International Autograph Auctions, said: “The books have great provenance and came with a letter saying they were originally acquired by Ian Scott Hunter, a footman in the Royal household.

“He was given the books by the housekeeper at Park House on the Queen’s Sandringham estate. He had young children himself so was given these books and toys which the Spencer children no longer needed because they had outgrown them.

“Princess Diana is still a very popular figure with the British public and the collecting community.

“But the thing that’s really interesting with this item is it’s an early form of her signature and part of a royal princess’s childhood.

“It’s impossible to know for sure, but from her handwriting I would guess Diana was about five or six years old when she wrote her name in it.

“It sold for a great amount, three times the estimate, to a UK private collector.”

Diana’s family moved from Sandringham when her grandfather Albert died and her father John became the 8th Earl Spencer.

They moved to the family seat in Althorp, Northants, when Diana was 14. Six years later she married Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, and died aged 36 in a car crash in Paris in 1997.

Since then items related to her have proven popular at auction. Five of her dresses sold in Beverley Hills last year for about £3m.

Source:UKMirror

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