Overview
- Bonhams will offer items from Terence Stamp’s estate in a Sound & Cinema sale running June 15–25, including personal letters, scripts, costumes and Polaroids.
- A handwritten thank-you letter dated October 17, 1991, from Diana to Stamp appears to reference the antidepressant Prozac and is estimated to sell for about £1,500–£2,000.
- The lot also includes playful, risqué postcards from Diana to Stamp that show a candid friendship combining humour and intimacy.
- Reporting notes a dispute over the meaning of the Prozac line because a later journalist recalled Diana denying she had ever taken such pills, so interpretation of the notes is contested.
- The sale is likely to prompt renewed media reassessment of Stamp’s legacy and public debate over privacy, mental‑health disclosures and how provenance and modest estimates shape the market for royal memorabilia.