A poignant letter from King Charles discussing the 'unbearable emptiness' of grief four months after Princess Diana's death has sold at auction for more than £1,500.
Charles tells the recipient, a Mr Peter Houghton, that his heart 'bleeds' for him following the passing of 'dear Liz' to illness.
The monarch adds that he can imagine the 'agony' he was going through and 'longed to wave a magic wand to transform the situation'.
Charles then laments the 'bewilderment and confusion that accompanies the removal of someone so young from the world'.
He elaborates on his Christian faith and his beliefs on what happens when someone dies, quoting a Bible passage that states 'now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face'.
A poignant letter from King Charles discussing the 'unbearable emptiness' of grief four months after Princess Diana 's death has sold at auction for over £1,500
Charles standing with sons Prince William and Prince Harry, along with Diana's brother Earl Spencer following her funeral service in 1997
The three page handwritten letter was written on a Highgrove House letterhead and dated December 8, 1997, about 14 weeks after Diana's death.
It is signed 'Charles' and has its original envelope which had his instructions for it to be delivered 'by hand'.
The letter has sold for £1,560 ($2,004) at RR Auction, of Boston, US.
Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997, when her sons Princes William and Harry were aged 15 and 12 respectively.
An RR spokesperson said: 'This lengthy handwritten letter to "Peter" expresses his sympathy upon the death of a loved one.
'Charles was likely particularly emotional at the time he wrote the letter, as Princess Diana had tragically passed away just a few months before in August 1997.'
The letter in full reads: 'I have been thinking so much of you yesterday and today, knowing how deeply you will be affected by yesterday's tragic news about dear Liz.
'My heart bleeds for you as I can imagine so well the utter agony and despair you must have gone through during all these heart-rendering months that you have known about Liz's illness.
The letter was written in 1997 and was addressed to Peter, though it is unknown who that is
The King writes about the 'unbearable emptiness' of grief and elaborates on his Christian faith and his beliefs on what happens when someone dies, quoting a Bible passage
The multiple pages, written around 14 weeks after Diana's death, are signed with 'Charles'
'All of us who know you-and are so fond you both-have felt the agony in a far lesser way of course, but have longed to wave a magic wand to transform the situation.
'I often think that that is the worst part of all-being unable to help in any constructive way except to say constant prayers in the background & to try and surround you both with love & affection & concern.
'I can so well imagine the unbearable emptiness you must feel at this time; the sense of bewilderment & confusion that accompanies the removal of someone still so young from this world.
'Personally, I believe that there is another dimension beyond this physical one & that we will be amazed to discover it for ourselves when we are eventually - or at a moment- called upon to make that certain journey for ourselves.
'As it says in the Bible - "Now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face."
The letter still has its original envelope which had instructions for it to be delivered 'by hand' to a Mr Peter Houghton
The coffin of Diana, Princess of Wales, is carried inside Westminster Abbey for her funeral service following her tragic death in a Paris car crash
'I can't tell you how pleased & happy I am to have known Liz. She was such a great life-enhancer.
'We shall all have such special memories of her but, above all, Peter, we mind about you & you are so very much in my thoughts and prayers at this most anguishing of times.
'I thought you might just find a very small speck of comfort from this short piece of profoundly wise verse by William Blake and, together with this, I enclose a few "Highgrove things" as a token of immense, affectionate sympathy.'
Charles (left) and Princess Diana (right), pictured at home in Kensington Palace in1985
