Mags Gargan
Mother Teresa. The late Princess of Wales developed a friendship with an Irish nun who offered her “prayers and support” during the public breakdown of her marriage, a series of letters, newly discovered in Ireland, reveal.
Letters and a Christmas card sent by Princess Diana in 1992 to Sr Teresa of the Little Sisters of the Assumption are due to be auctioned for up to €1,200 at Sheppard’s Irish Auction House in Durrow, Co. Laois on March 1.
Sr Teresa, a native of Co. Kildare, based in the order’s convent in Wrexham, north Wales at the time, met Princess Diana through a mutual friend and wrote to the princess following the death of her father in March 1992.
Sympathy
The princess replied expressing her gratitude for the nun’s sympathy and wrote again in November that year thanking Sr Teresa for her “prayers, support and, most importantly . . . care” for which she was “deeply touched”. She also expressed her “deepest admiration for the wonderful work” of the Little Sisters of the Assumption, The Irish Times reports.
In December 1992, it was officially announced that the Prince and Princess of Wales were separating and later that month, the princess sent Sr Teresa a Christmas card featuring a photograph of her sons, Princes William and Harry, which she hand-signed “with much love from Diana”. Five years later, Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris.