A collection of personal letters from the late Princess of Wales, Diana, the first wife of the current British King Charles III, is being auctioned off, and is expected to fetch $110,000 at the auction.
These letters, which are revealed for the first time, include letters and cards in which Princess Diana talks about her regret over her divorce from Charles, while criticizing the British royal family.
It is scheduled to offer about 32 letters and cards for sale written between 1995 and 1996 to her two friends, Susie and Tariq Qassem, whom she met for the first time in August 1995 during her visits to the Royal Brompton Hospital.
The couple decided to sell these letters, noting that “possessing the documents is a great responsibility that they did not want to pass on to their children.”
The letters are to be sold individually, and the proceeds will be donated to the charities Diana supported, through Leigh in Penzance, UK auction house, on February 16.
In a letter dated April 28, 1996, Diana revealed that she had canceled a trip to the Opera due to the stress of her separation, writing: “I am having a very difficult time, the pressure is intense and it comes from all sides. It is hard sometimes to keep one’s head up, and today I am sitting on I’m on my knees and I just long for this divorce to pass because the cost is too much.”
In another letter, dated May 20, 1996, Susie told Kasim that phones in Kensington Palace were being tapped.
She wrote: “If I had known a year ago what I would have gone through during this divorce, I would not have agreed to the separation. It’s desperate and ugly.”
On the other hand, Diana, in some of her letters, thanked the couple for showering her with gifts and emotional support.
And in a new letter dated December 2, 1995, the day after Queen Elizabeth II advised her son, Prince Charles and Diana, to separate, she wrote: “They may describe me as a butterfly, but I do not want to fly away from this beautiful family,” referring to the Qasim family.
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