Auction Date:2010 Jun 16 @ 10:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
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ALS, three pages on two separate sheets, 7.5 x 9.25, Kensington Palace letterhead, August 14, 1987. Letter addressed to “Dearest Janet.” In full: “It was such a lovely surprise to find your letter waiting for me on our return from Spain—I got great comfort from what you put onto paper & I know that you really do care which means a great deal to me. I’d love to come & have lunch with you or you come here, whatever suits, but maybe we could organize something when I come down from Scotland in the second half of September—It’s a lovely idea & not to be missed!
I wish that I could cope with the media & people’s thirst for knowledge of us, but after six years I find everything that much more of a struggle & just cannot see a light at the end of the tunnel—I know there are a million people worse off than me & that I should do all that I can for them, but at the end of the day I have to live with myself & emotionally at the moment, I am upside down & confused (so boring for those around me) & putting on this act is desperate, but if it keeps people off my back then surely it must be worth it. Enough of me, but thank you, Janet, for your lovely letter.” In fine, clean condition.
This revealing letter shows a desperate Diana, her marriage in deep crisis, grateful to be able to take comfort in someone who “really (does) care which means a great deal to me.” Like most people, Diana tried to cope with the stressfulness of her life, realizing that “there are a million people worse off than me & that I should do all that I can for them,” but emotionally confessing that the life as a member of the Royal Family is “much more of a struggle & just cannot see a light at the end of the tunnel.” A sad piece of correspondence describing the pressures of living under the terrible media intrusion that would ultimately lead to her untimely demise in a French tunnel following a pursuit by photographers.
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