By Lucy Caulkett
A handwritten letter from Britain’s well love late princess Diana is to be auctioned.
The letter, dated June 27, 1991, four days before her 30th birthday displays the late Princess’s beautiful handwriting in which she express her deep thoughts about the unforeseeable years ahead.
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Revealed by The Daily Mail Princess of Wales wrote to close friend Dudley Poplak to thank him for three drawings he had produced for her to mark her 30th birthday in July 1991.
She wrote: ‘I do wonder what the next ten years will bring, the last ten I have learnt a great deal in an interesting way!’
Diana died next to her new-found love Dodi Fayed in a car crash in Paris aged 36.
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The letter on Kensington Palace-headed notepaper, has emerged 29 years later after it was put up for public auction by a retired autograph and manuscripts dealer. They are being sold by David Lay Auctioneers of Penzance, Cornwall, for an estimated £600.
The letter from Diana is dated June 27, 1991, four days before her 30th birthday.
Next to it is a separate note by her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, in which she wrote how her son Charles Spencer ‘took on the world’ in his famous eulogy to his sister at her funeral at Westminster Abbey.
The items are being sold by David Lay Auctioneers of Penzance, Cornwall, for an estimated £600.
Diana confessed that she had already opened them before the big day.
Diana added: ‘Since when have I be (sic) able to keep a present for the right day & I’m afraid your three wonderful drawings were no exception!’
She then made a joke at the expense of her stepmother Raine Spencer who it seems had a reputation for selling family items.
Diana said: ‘I am deeply touched to be given something that means such a lot to our family & that Raine hasn’t put under auction!’ The Princess went on the add the touching line about her future.
She wrote: ‘I do wonder what the next ten years will bring, the last ten I have learnt a great deal in an interesting way!’
The note from Frances Shand Kydd was written four months after Diana’s death.
The late Mrs Shand Kydd was writing after she had delivered her own speech at a memorial mass for Diana at St Columba’s Cathedral in Oban in Scotland, where she lived.
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