Rummaging through my career files today I read again the 1997 letter to us from Diana, Princess of Wales expressing thanks for what the Embassy had done to help her on her visit to Bosnia to highlight the dangers of landmines – as it tragically turned out, the last public engagement she undertook and one which the Embassy had to help organise at literally three days’ notice(!)…

Here is a Sunday Times report of the visit. The media ‘story’ at the time as she left Sarajevo of course was not landmines but her relationship with Dodi Fayed.

Her letter to me dated 13 August 1997 must have been one of the final official letters she signed before her fatal car crash on 31 August in Paris.

Something special to keep in the family archives.