RICHARD EDEN: Mystery as Princess Michael of Kent's intimate private letters with eminent priest are flogged on eBay For £65 each By RICHARD EDEN Published: 22:02, 15 November 2024 | Updated: 22:21, 15 November 2024 e-mail View comments The thought that someone's been rifling through your private letters would be disagreeable enough. But imagine learning that the same correspondence – all of it concerning your marital status – was being sold on eBay , priced '£65 or best offer' per item. Yet that's the indignity, I can reveal, currently being suffered by Princess Michael of Kent, who, until I alerted her, was blissfully oblivious of what was going on.
'Princess Michael didn't know about the sale of letters,' her spokesman assures me. 'And, at this moment, there will be no further comment.' The person hawking the letters – ten in all, and all dating from 1979 or 1980 – on the online auction site is in no mood to dispel the mystery of how they came into his (or her) possession.
On the contrary, the unidentified seller intensifies the intrigue. 'They are original and has been pushed in auction house,' is the first emailed response to my inquiry about how they came to be in the public domain. 'Princess Michael didn't know about the sale of letters,' her spokesman said.
Pictured: rincess Michael of Kent and Prince Michael of Kent arrive at Westminster Abbey in central London on May 6, 2023 British Royal Prince Michael of Kent and his bride, German nobility Princess Micha.