Princess Diana’s honeymoon letters come with past royal drama

The late Princess Diana has nine letters written by herself in auction! These writings detail her honeymoon and spill the tea on the early years of her marriage to Prince Charles. The letters are set to fetch up approximately at £20,000 by California-based firm Julien’s Auctions.

Here’s where it gets juicy: the first letter, written August 14, 1981, talks about Diana and Charles’ honeymoon cruise aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia, and was addressed to Maud Pendrey, her family’s former housekeeper. Princess Diana described the honeymoon as a “tremendous success” and explained she and the then-Prince Charles had a “glorious time.”

“The honeymoon was a tremendous success, and we had a glorious time catching up on our lost energy and sleep.”

But boom, plot twist! These words contradict what she later confessed to her voice coach, as revealed in a Channel 4 documentary. She re-told an argument over cufflinks, which the now-Queen Camilla Parker gifted the now-King Charles lll. The cufflinks featured two interlocked C’s, reminiscent of the Chanel logo. The late Princess confronted her then-husband, saying:

“Camilla gave you those, didn’t she?” His response, “Yes, so what’s wrong?”

And the rest? It’s royal history. Princess Diana would go on to divorce Charles in August 1996 and tragically passed away a year after in a car crash in Paris. Charles married Camilla Parker in 2005, and they’re now reigning supreme in the United Kingdom.