Letters handwritten by Princess Diana to an interior decorator she befriended before her marriage to Prince Charles are to be sold at auction next month, Bonham Brooks auction house has announced. The letters - including brief notes and Christmas cards -were sent over a period of years to decorator John Munro, who met Diana while painting the London apartment she lived in before her engagement to Charles.
In one from 1981, a young lady Diana Spencer remarks: "Life is very exhausting being engaged. I was always warned about this and now it couldn`t be more true."
The correspondences - expected to fetch between $ 850 and $ 2,500 each - are to be auctioned on Sept. 13, the London auction house said yesterday. Munro`s family, who inherited them after he died in 1992 at the age of 83, is selling them.
Also on sale from Monro`s collection of Diana-related items are an unopened bottle of vintage whisky she gave him as a Christmas present and an autographed catalogue of dresses worn by the Princess.
Bureau Report