The Scottish Mail on Sunday

‘A GREEK TRAGEDY’: IN HIS OWN HAND, PRINCE SHARES ANGUISH OF HIS BREAK-UP FROM DIANA... IN INTIMATE LETTERS TO NANCY REAGAN

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It is a kind of Greek tragedy and would certainly make a very good play

Tormented by the public breakdown of his marriage, Prince Charles pours out his heart in a letter written from his Highgrove ‘sanctuary’ on June 21, 1992, days after Andrew Morton’s book Diana: Her True Story portrays him as a cruel and callous husband.

Apparently there are a whole series of ghastly books coming out in time with our 10th wedding anniversar­y – so you can imagine what they will contain!

Diana still hasn’t got over dancing with John Travolta

Smitten Charles writes with ill-concealed pride about his wife’s dazzling dance with her idol John Travolta at the White House in November 1985, which became an iconic image.

I know exactly the methods these dreadful people employ

Charles comforts Nancy after Kitty Kelley’s ‘appalling’ exposé, left, in April 1991 and, in words reproduced right, fears a raft of ‘ghastly books’ for his tenth wedding anniversar­y. Morton’s book, far right, came out in 1992

 ??  ?? HIDEAWAY: Prince Charles writing a letter in Highgrove in 1986
HIDEAWAY: Prince Charles writing a letter in Highgrove in 1986
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