A chance encounter at age 12 with Princess Diana set Renae Plant on her lifelong mission to assemble a veritable museum of the late style icon's most memorable outfits, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

Plant mortgaged her home for the fourth time to secure 35 items connected to Diana at the recent Princess Diana's Style & A Royal Collection sale in Los Angeles , held by Julien's Auctions. She bid nearly $700,000 on a single dress: the famous Caring Dress, which the People's Princess wore during her second Australian tour in 1988. Article continues below advertisement

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Plant's love for the late princess began with their run-in during Diana's first Australian tour in 1983. Renae skipp

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