A new part of Lady Diana’s private life is about to be revealed. The former Princess of Wales’s letters to a couple of friends during her divorce from Prince Charles, now King, will be auctioned on February 16 by Lay’s Auctioneers in Penzance, south Wales, western England. 32 handwritten letters written in the mid-1990s, in which she specifically accuses Buckingham of tapping his phone.
As reported by sunday time, these letters were written to Susie and Tarek Kassem, two close friends of Diana’s. They explain that they decided to put them up for sale because “owning these documents is a great responsibility” that they do not want to pass on to their children. The letters will be sold individually and are estimated at a total of 90,000 pounds (about 101,000 euros) that will be donated to associations supported by the princess, who died in 1997 in a car accident in Paris at the age of 36.
“I’m on my knees”
Several of these letters mention the difficulties Diana encountered during her highly publicized divorce from Charles. In particular, letter dated April 28, 1996:
“I am going through very difficult times, the pressure is intense and it comes from all sides. Sometimes it’s just too hard to keep my head up, and today I’m on my knees. I just want this divorce to go through, because the price to pay can be enormous.”
always according to sunday timeHe assured in another letter that his phone at Kensington Palace was bugged “constantly”.
A “desperate and ugly” divorce
“If I had known a year ago what was going to happen with this divorce, I would never have consented,” he confesses in another extract dated 1996 and broadcast by the daily mail. “It’s useless and it’s ugly.”
The British newspaper points to several signs of Lady Diana’s affection for the Kassem couple, and interprets an excerpt as a reference to her strained relationship with the royal family:
“I am immensely touched by the way you both seek to protect me… I’m not used to that!”
The sale of these letters comes after several months of embarrassment for the British royal family. Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, exiled in the United States, presented a Netflix documentary series at the end of December in which (again) they talked about his difficult relationship with the Windsors. A few weeks later, in January, Prince Harry published his memoirs entitled alternate, whose impact was worldwide. In particular, he revealed that his brother William “threw him to the ground” during an argument about his union with Meghan Markle.
Before that, the fifth season of The crownthe fiction that narrates the background of the royal family, evoked last November the painful divorce of the princess and the prince of Wales.
Source: BFM TV
