An Apartment in Princess Diana's Pre-Royal Home Is for Sale for More Than £3 Million

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It might be palaces and royal estates that pop to mind when many of us think of the homes of the late Princess Diana, but in fact, the former abode she may well have been most associated with was one she lived in before she joined the royal family. In 1979, at the tender age of 18, the future Princess of Wales, then Lady Diana Spencer, used £50,000 she had inherited from her American great-grandmother to purchase a three-bedroom apartment in Coleherne Court.

While she lived in the building, Diana rented out her spare rooms to friends, charging them £18 per week per person—a price tag that may now seem like a deal, as a three-bedroom apartment currently for sale in Coleherne Court is listed with Marsh & Parsons estate agents for a tidy £3.15 million. Modern amenities for the building include a 24-hour porter service and CCTV monitoring, according to the Telegraph.

The Edwardian mansion block in the South Kensington neighborhood of London, already had a rather chic reputation by the time Diana moved in, known as a place in the city where debutants would spend their single years before marrying well, according to Tina Brown's biography of the Princess of Wales, The Diana Chronicles. Of course, that reputation would only grow once Prince Charles and Diana began dating, the the address becoming overrun with journalists and paparazzi after the prince proposed in 1981, becoming what Diana biographer Andrew Morton called, "the most famous address in Britain."

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