Princess Diana’s love letters to James Hewitt could be sold imminently and reveal “highly intimate” new details it is feared.
The 64 letters, which were written between 1989 and 1991 and in Diana’s distinctive handwriting, have a price tag of around £780,000, due to renewed interest in the late Princess of Wales ’ memorabilia.
And a US auction house reportedly has a wealthy collector who is ready to buy the letters from 65-year-old Hewitt. Some of the letters were written on military paper and include the period when Hewitt, who had a five-year affair with Diana until 1992, was serving in the Gulf War.
London auction house Bonhams has valued the letters at up to £466.,000 but it declined the opportunity to sell them and instead a buyer is now allegedly being sought in the US via Heritage auctioneers which is based in Dallas.
While Heritage has said that it has no intention of putting the letters up for auction, an email from January, according to The Sun, written by a boss at the company, stated that the “best way to proceed was to work with a likely potential buyer they already have in mind for a private sale”.
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And a source told the outlet that: “It’s all moving in the right direction and a sale seems imminent.” But last week a spokesman for Hewitt said that Heritage was only approached “to value and authenticate the letters for personal reasons and insurance purposes”. He added that Hewitt had no intention to sell. And a Heritage spokesperson told The Mirror that it “has no intention of offering these letters publicly or privately."
There has been plenty of speculation of who could be a potential buyer for the letters. Ukrainian-American billionaire Mark Ginzburg, 67, has been put forward as a possibility having already bought a diamond and pearl necklace that belonged to Diana in 2010. Another potential candidate could be Jim McIngvale , 73, a Texan memorabilia collector.
Meanwhile, Hewitt’s relationship with Diana is likely to be thrown back into the limelight this week as a former bodyguard for the late Princess of Wales speaks in a Channel 5 documentary. "She told me in short about the problems with her marriage with Camilla always being there," Ken Wharfe tells Secrets of the Royal Palaces, which airs on March 23, according to the Mail's Ephraim Hardcastle.
"Suddenly to hear it in full verse from the Princess of Wales was quite extraordinary. I found I understood this woman much more as a result of this discussion because it did help me for example to police the occasions she met James Hewitt at his mother's house in Devon."
Prior to the documentary airing, Ken spoke on The Sun's Royal Exclusive show about working with William and Harry when they were children. "It was a very happy union. It was a very happy family," he said. "What I will say is Diana and her husband [the then-Prince Charles] at that time were going through a very difficult period of their life. But both of them didn't want their situation to be known by the children. They had a blissful happy life at that point."
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