A Birmingham auction house has sold Princess Diana’s last ever letter for £2,400.
The note, to a humanitarian campaigner, was bought by a private buyer at Fellows Auctioneers this week.
Mark Huddleston, of Fellows, said: “We’re generally pleased with the final hammer price for this lot.
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“It went for well within the expected estimate and received a lot of attention in doing so.
“The letter’s new owner will no doubt appreciate the importance of this historical document.
“Who knows, in the future it may well be under the hammer again.”
The letter was written on Kensington Palace-headed notepaper to landmine campaigner Dilys Cheetham to thank her for her work in Bosnia.
The document was dated just three weeks before the princess died in a Paris car crash in August 1997 and signed “with love from Diana”.
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Ms Cheetham, from Richmond, North Yorkshire, died in 2006, having sold the letter to celebrity photographer Jason Fraser in a 1999 charity auction to raise money for landmine victims.
He sold the letter to a private collector in 2007 – the tenth anniversary of Diana’s death.
In the letter to Ms Cheetham, Diana revealed her own trip to Bosnia earlier in the month of her death had “strengthened her resolve” to spread the message about landmine victims.
The Royal wrote: “There was not enough time for me to visit the Mostar area while I was in Bosnia but I was able to visit a number of anti-personnel landmine victims and their families. I could not help but be deeply moved by the experience which hardened my resolve to ensure the world does not forget that those who have been so needlessly maimed by these terrible weapons will need care and support for many years to come.”