Overview
- Reeman Dansie has consigned the previously unseen two-page handwritten letter for its June 9 “Royalty, Antiques & Fine Art” sale in Colchester with an estimate of about £3,000–£4,000.
- The letter is dated Nov. 27, 1995, written one week after Diana’s Nov. 20 Panorama interview, and was sent to a supporter named Michael Barratt who had written to praise the broadcast.
- On Kensington Palace-headed paper Diana thanked Barratt, said she hoped the interview would help other women, and wrote that she looked forward to teaching William and Harry “the importance of communication on a deeper level.”
- The note’s resurfacing arrives against the background of the 2021 Dyson inquiry, which found Martin Bashir used deceitful methods to secure the 1995 interview by falsifying information to gain access to Diana.
- The disclosure has renewed public focus on the brothers’ well-known estrangement but has produced no reported change in their relationship, and it highlights how Diana memorabilia continues to shape public debate about family and media practices.