Correspondence from Princess Diana to her close friend, late fashion editor Liz Tilberis, sold for a total of $47,500 at an American auction on Wednesday.
The top lot among ten items handwritten by the Princess was a personalised Christmas card with a photos of Princes William and Harry, and Diana's nieces, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, which went for $7,000. A letter fetched the lowest winning bid at $4,000.
The Cy Auction Gallery, in the town of Gray, Maine, held the auction of more than 600 pieces from the estate of Ms Tilberis, former editor of British Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. The fashionista, one of Diana's closest confidantes, died of ovarian cancer two years after the Princess was killed in a 1997 Paris car crash.
Controversy over Princess Diana's estate, meanwhile, continues in the UK. New revelations in a book about the late royal's life claim she once ordered a palace inquiry after a servant stole a pair of emerald earrings given to her by lover James Hewitt. However, official action was avoided after the thief quietly returned the jewellery under threat of a Scotland Yard investigation.
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