Dudley Poplak: Last News

The Queen is a mother, grandmother and at last count a great-grandmother of a massive 12 members of the Royal Family. With all of those family members comes the inevitable joy of hearing that one is to welcome a new member into the clan. For any parent, it’s almost a rite of passage to envision and lovingly create a nursery for their little ones to play and grow in – and the Royal Family is no different.

tragic death.The Princess of Wales sent the fateful note to interior designer Dudley Poplak in 1991 to thank him for pictures he had drawn for her 30th birthday.She told him: “I do wonder what the next 10 years will bring, the last 10 I have learnt a great deal in an interesting way.”A year later, Princess Diana stunned the world by announcing her separation from Prince Charles.Her death, aged 36, in a car crash followed in August 1997.Diana’s letter to Poplak, on Kensington Palace-headed notepaper, is being sold at auction on July 30 alongside a separate note by her mother Frances Kydd.Mimo Connell Lay, of David Lay Auctioneers, said: “These two items are from a retired dealer who is selling some of his most treasured items.“The line where

A letter written by Princess Diana just before she turned 30 years old has emerged at an auction. Images obtained by the Daily Mail show that Diana wrote the letter, dated June 27, 1991, to her friend Dudley Poplak to thank him for a gift.

Princess Diana pondered what she would do in her 30s in a tragic letter to a close friend.