The timing of this sale coincides with what would have been the 45th anniversary of the then Prince and Diana’s wedding.
Albert Radford, books and manuscripts specialist at Gorringe’s, said: “This intimate archive offers a rare glimpse of Diana, Princess of Wales, before duty and fame had the final say.
“Through our client’s recollections from West Heath Girls’ School, Diana comes across as deeply unassuming and domestically minded; someone whose real ambition was simply to have a family and take pride in ordinary things.
“She remembers Diana volunteering to clean the house of the headmistress, and it is memories like this and the collection that has come to light, that present the real young Diana in a way that is completely at odds with the public persona that was created by others.
“She appears here as a young woman suspended between love and history – hopeful, unguarded, and not yet entirely claimed by the institution that would come to define her. In these small, fragile traces, innocence lingers – along with a quiet stubborn belief in something as simple and elusive as love.”
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