Notes and cards the late princess sent to her family’s former housekeeper are up for auction. They include snippets from her life at the time.
More than a dozen handwritten cards and letters from Princess Diana to her family’s former housekeeper are set to be sold at auction.
Violet Collison, who the Princess of Wales affectionately called Collie, was head housekeeper to her parents at Park House on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, where Diana spent her childhood years.
Most of the letters from Diana are thank-you notes for birthday and Christmas presents given to the princess and her children, William and Harry.
The cards, which often include a line about Diana’s life at the time, are expected to sell for thousands of pounds.
In one letter, written from Kensington Palace on 25 September, 1984, Diana thanked Collie for a gift to Harry.
She said: “William adores his little brother and spends the entire time pouring an endless supply of hugs and kisses over Harry.”
A double-sided letter, written on Buckingham Palace notepaper, was sent three weeks before the royal wedding.