LONDON.- A collection of letters written on behalf of the Duke of Windsor in the 1930s that were amassed by keen Royal fan Mrs Lillian Boraston who lived in Surrey will be offered in Catherine Southon Auctioneers & Valuers’ Sale of Antiques and Collectables on Wednesday February 8, 2023 at Farleigh Court Golf Club, Selsdon in Surrey. They have been discovered in a box of family papers by her granddaughter and are estimated at £300-500.

The fourteen letters that have been posted from all over the world were written by the Private Secretary of the Duke of Windsor (previously Edward VIII) and date from the period June 1937 – six months after his historic abdication - though to Christmas 1939. One letter dated September 7, 1937, comments: “His Royal Highness thanks you for the poem and your kind wishes but asks me at the same time to assure you that the information that His Royal Highness is homesick is entirely without foundation.”

It continues: “His Royal Highness wishes me to add that quite apart from rumours in the press, it is not very likely that he would be missing the country which in every possible way, tried to humiliate and misrepresent both himself and the Duchess of Windsor.”

Her granddaughter commented: “My grandmother died when I was five years old, but these letters were mentioned occasionally. They give a great insight into the Duke’s life in the 1930s - where he stayed, where he went on honeymoon etc – all things that we would now learn from TV or social media.”

Catherine Southon said: “It’s amazing that these letters have just come to light and what parallels there are with today’s Royal Family whether it be the Duke and Duchess of Sussex or the death of H.R.H the Queen last year – people are still totally fascinated.”

The letters are accompanied by nine scrap albums of newspaper cuttings relating to the Duke of Windsor from 1936-1941.