Princess Diana planned a new life after her divorce from Charles of England. Lady D’s dreams, hopes and fears are reflected in her last letter before her death, which will be auctioned by Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies in Beverly Hills, California in September. The letter, recently found and published by the British newspaper Chron, was sent to the President of the Royal New Zealand Foundation for The Blind on July 15, 1996. A year earlier she died in the accident in Paris. Diana informs about the impossibility of continuing to fulfill the association’s charitable obligations. First of all because of the role he will no longer play in the royal family. On August 28, 1996, the end of the marriage to the Prince of Wales is officially announced. The title “princess” remains with her, but she is no longer a royal highness and also has to give up her public offices, which she held precisely because of her marriage to the heir to the throne. Between the lines of the short handwritten letter, the fear of building a new single life stands out.
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“There are a number of issues that need to be resolved,” stresses Lady D, who is being forced “with great sadness” to step down from the position of protector of the charity “for personal reasons”. “As you know, my personal situation, in particular my marriage to the Prince of Wales, has been the subject of detailed conjectures in recent months and these will soon be formalized in the usual legal way,” he adds. “As I try to re-arrange my life, I will not be able to provide the right level of commitment to the Foundation and I have a feeling there may be someone else better suited to support you. Although the princess has been going through difficult moments due to the crisis in her marriage and the imminent divorce, the tone of the letter is positive. That of a woman open to a future she wants to believe is better. Nothing points to the tragic fate that will befall her on the night of August 30th/31st, 1997. At 1:41 a.m., the Mercedes he was traveling in collided with a pole in the Alma tunnel in Paris. The princess will die a few hours later at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital from the serious injuries she sustained.