Princess Diana letters expose dreadful details about divorce from King Charles

• Letters from Princess Diana are being auctioned off by her close friends.
• The Princess reportedly expressed concerns that the Royal family had bugged her phone.
• She wrote to apologise for having to postpone a trip with them to attend the opera.

The late mother of Prince William and Harry expressed her agony at the “desperate and ugly” divorce from King Charles in previously unseen letters from Princess Diana.

According to the previously undisclosed letters, Harry’s mother said to friends that “she never would have gone through with her divorce” if she had known how “desperate and ugly” the procedure would be.

Diana wrote in the letter to her close friends Susie and Tarek Kassem about how the discussions had left her “on her knees.”

The People’s Princess reportedly expressed her concerns that the Royal family had bugged her phone at Kensington Palace in a collection of 32 letters that the Kassems are auctioning off. Throughout her separation from Charles, she turned to her close confidantes for guidance and support.

Diana’s thoughts throughout the divorce are described in one of the collection’s most revealing letters.

She wrote to the Kassems to apologise for having to postpone a trip with them to attend the opera Tosca and explained “I am having a very difficult time and pressure is serious and coming from all sides. It’s too difficult sometimes to keep one’s head up and today I am on my knees and just longing for this divorce to go through as the possible cost is tremendous.”

Near the end of the letter, Diana’s generally fluid and precise handwriting starts to look worse. The princess also mentioned her concern that her phone at Kensington Palace was “constantly” monitored and that the Royal family had access to the recordings of her private talks.

She wrote: “If I’d known a year ago what I’d experience going through this divorce I never would have consented. It’s desperate and ugly.”

She thanked the Kassems in another letter for allowing her to spend Christmas 1995 with them while William and Harry were at Sandringham with their father.

It was commonly believed that Diana spent the holiday alone at Kensington Palace after Buckingham Palace publicly indicated she would not be joining them for the festivities.

Diana wrote: “I was so thrilled to be invited into a family occasion particularly as I was made to feel like one of the team.”

The couple is currently selling 32 letters and cards that Diana wrote in late 1995 and throughout 1996.

She gushingly thanked the pair, whom she first met in August 1995 while making her regular trips to the Royal Brompton Hospital, for showering her with gifts and providing emotional support in many of them.

I may have been called a butterfly, but I don’t want to fly away from this wonderful family, the Queen wrote on December 19, 1995, the day after she suggested Charles and Diana get a divorce. She was making reference to the Kassem clan.

Added her:  “I’m immensely touched by how protective you both are of me… I’m not used to that!”

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