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A 52-year-old letter from King Charles<\/a> thanking a friend for the \u201cgreatest possible fun\u201d in Acapulco has emerged ahead of an auction next month. Written in 1974 by a 25-year-old Charles while serving in the Royal Navy, the letter<\/a> sees the monarch reminisce about having \u201cenormous fun\u201d at the lavish Las Brisas hotel in the Mexican resort city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Charles wrote: \u201cYour party on the last night was the greatest possible fun. I hope we didn’t behave too roughly in the swimming pool or destroy anything as a result.\u201d The five-page letter was addressed to American hotelier Col Frank Brandstetter, who owned Las Brisas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The monarch told him: \u201cI am afraid it has taken me an uncommonly long time to write and thank you for all you did to make our visit to Acapulco such enormous fun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThe delay is indicative of the extent to which I have been savouring the happy memories of those all too brief days and the kindness which you displayed to all of us at Las Brisas.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The young prince spoke of how \u201cimpressed\u201d he was with the luxurious hotel and was keen to explore its famous individual pools off each room.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He said: \u201cNeedless to say, I was suitably impressed and awed by the brilliant organisation which obviously stemmed from the source of power at the top of the mountain!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The letter was dated April 3, 1974, and addressed from \u201cthe Caribbean\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The auction by RR Auction will take place on February 11, with the bids starting at \u00a3145 ($200).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 52-year-old letter from King Charles thanking a friend for the \u201cgreatest possible fun\u201d in Acapulco has emerged ahead of an auction next month. Written in 1974 by a 25-year-old Charles while serving in the Royal Navy, the letter sees the monarch reminisce about having \u201cenormous fun\u201d at the lavish Las Brisas hotel in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2260869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[183315,437888,437886,262648,407379,437885,437887,195881,307603,24228,22089],"class_list":["post-2260868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-king-charles","tag-king-charles-acapulco","tag-king-charles-auction","tag-king-charles-latest","tag-king-charles-latest-news","tag-king-charles-letter","tag-king-charles-letter-auction","tag-king-charles-news","tag-king-charles-update","tag-royal-family-news","tag-royal-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/King-Charles-speaks-about-\u2018greatest-possible-fun-in-52-year-old-letter.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260870,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260868\/revisions\/2260870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2260869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}