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It was a letter written by a man who clearly felt trapped. Weighed down by responsibility, the author was desperate to escape it all with the woman he loved.
Despite their families being born thousands of miles apart and on different sides of the Atlantic, Prince Harry and Anderson Cooper's families have crossed paths before.
The four-page letter, written by the then-Prince of Wales in 1919, aged 25, fetched almost 12 times its pre-sale estimate of £400 to £600.
The letter is thought to be one of hundreds sent by Prince Edward to Freda Dudley Ward most of which have been destroyed and is set to go up for auction with an estimated value of £600