A work contract signed by Diana Spencer two years before she married the then-Prince of Wales is expected to fetch thousands of dollars at auction on Tuesday.
The often fraught relationship between her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana, and the media must surely have played a part in the Waleses guarded approach to privacy.
Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh once lived at Coleherne Court in London's exclusive SW3, where the late Princess Diana was formerly a resident. See inside the lavish property.