Princess Diana pondered what she would do in her 30s in a tragic letter to a close friend. The Princess of Wales wrote to Dudley Poplak to thank him for three drawings he had produced for her to mark her 30th birthday in July 1991 - a year before she separated from Prince Charles and six years before she was killed in a car crash in Paris.
The handwritten note has come to light as it goes on sale, expected to fetch about £600. She wrote: "I do wonder what the next ten years will bring, the last ten I have learnt a great deal in an interesting way!" Charles and Diana had a notoriously difficult marriage in which both are acknowledged to have had extra-marital affairs.
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