Two dance purses once belonging to Princess Diana s paternal grandmother Cynthia are on sale dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Nice portrait, another wrote, Princess Diana is very similar to your grandmother.
In the portrait shared today, Cynthia can be seen gazing out at the sketcher John Singer Sargent, who was an American expatriate artist, considered the leading portrait painter of his generation for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury.
Royal fans were stunned by the painting, with many saying Cynthia, who passed away in 1972, aged 75, appeared the double of the late Princess
A picture of Cynthia dating back to 1923 can be seen at the National Portrait Gallery in London and captures her with her toddler daughter Anne, then three, with her husband Albert Spencer.
Four and a half years ago, Parnham House in Dorset was reduced by fire to a smouldering shell a catastrophe followed by the arrest of its owner, Austrian banker Michael Treichl, for suspected arson, and his subsequent death by drowning in Lake Geneva.
But what promises to be one of Britain s most daring and innovative architectural resurrections is now in hand thanks to the man dubbed the new Leonardo of design .
Thomas Heatherwick is the creator of the stunning cauldron at the 2012 London Olympics, as well as an array of buildings and bridges around the world.
Parnham House in Dorset pictured before a devastating fire reduced it to a smouldering hell