Lady Sarah Mac Corquodale lives at Stoke Rochford Hall near Grantham. On
28 april 1998 I sent Her the following letter: "Instituto
Cervantes NBLEW P.O. Box 689. NL 3500 AR UTRECHT. Kingdom of
Netherlands. Lady Sarah McCorquodale. Office of Diana. Kensington
Palace. LONDON W8 4PX UNITED KINGDOM. Date: 28 April 1998.
Concerns: 'Letters'. Reference:
JH/LSM980428. Dear Lady McCorquodale, Next Thursday - Our
Queen's Day - it will be exactly a year ago that I sent a postcard
from The Leicester Arms in London to 'My
Fifth Rose' at Kensington
Palace and the message "Mission Completed, Cervantes".
I write You this letter from a psychological point of view. In
the afternoon of 18
August last year I visited Buckingham
Palace - after having visited Kensington
Palace in the morning - where I admired the beautifull tapestries
with the images of Cervantes'
masterwork Don
Quixote de la Mancha. I imagined the period in which Diana
in Her lonely struggle in becoming Herself must have contemplated
those tapestries. I imagine that she studied the book of the
knight 'in shining armour' fighting against the world of prejudice
and intolerance like Cervantes'
don Quixote
did in his time. She was fighting Herself a way out of the world
that opposed Her own Mission as the mother of the
future king of England. I recognized that situation reading
about Her Quixotic Quest' in the book Diana,
Her new life of Andrew
Morton. I also recognized other familiar situations. From
1986 till 1992
She started a relationship - whatever that may be - with Mr James Hewitt. In that period I found myself
in a strong process of changes in my personal life. In 1986 my
former activities in Spain
were taken over by the company don
Quijote from Rotterdam, birth town of Erasmus
- spiritual partner of Thomas
More in the16th Century. In 1992
my relationship with my wife came to an end and of Hers and Mr Hewitt as
well. It was the time of 'Operation Dessert Storm', that in fact
continued until August
1996. On 4 August of that year I sent a postcard with the
image of Buckingham
Palace to someone in the
Netherlands with the message 'Storm is over'. Two days later
I established on the campingsite of Laleham
that my relationship with Diana
had started. You can read it in my Letters
to Diana, Princess of Wales that I delivered on last
23 December at Kensington
Palace and at Althorp
House on Christmas Day. Also Christie's
at Kings Street received a sample because there I have client
number 361106
referring to Diana's
age and the date 6
November on which I proclaimed Her Queen
of Hearts in Brussels
in 1996.
After having studied Her character with great care I came to
the conclusion that She must have been working out my ideas already
as from 1986 to establish a new vision for the future that was
called Dragon Vision Wizard
by Her friends and perhaps by Herself. That was in my opinion
the new direction in Her life about which your brother Charles
was speaking during the funeral service at Westminster
Abbey on 6
September of last year. Unfortunately I could not attend
that service shortly after
I advised Her to stop Her relationship with Mr Dodi Al-Fayed,
that caused Her tragic death. Diana
was a conscious person taking into account the personal situation
of the possible partners who could become important in Her future
life. During Her relationship with Mr
Hewitt She became very interested in military strategies
and took great care not to interfere in my personal life because
I was a married man at the time. That is my conviction and I
think you can confirm that as it can be confirmed by Sergeant
David Sharp whom I visited at ETON
COLLEGE last year. When Princess
Diana would not have died I think we would have had a perfect
relationship. The relationship of the Families Van
der Heyden and Spencer
goes back to deep
into the middle ages when we were active in the wool trade.
Your ancestors in England
and mine in Flanders
and Zealand.
And we would have had a wonderful family-company
again. Although I am recovering now from our deep felt loss and
a period of deep mourning I am very glad that you dispose of
the letters that Diana
sent to mr
Hewitt as I think that those letters
in fact were directed to me. That is how it works
psychologically spoken. So I would be honoured receiving copies
of those letters from You. It means a lot to me to know what
She was thinking in that period 1986-1991. Specificly because
I had appointed Her head
of our future organization shortly before She died with our
'sponsor'.
Today I received the Diana-stamps
from my friends of the magazine Vorsten.
They are wonderful and they mean The World to me. Specificly
the one in the middle. It reminds me that I was setting up the
European Cervantes
Foundation in the way I promised to Her in my reports that
I weekly sent to Her. From these reports in this letter I quote
some passages. First of all I quote my letter of 10 January 1997:
Astrology.
So I was better guarded in Paris
than Diana
four months later. We have to continue Her work. From 29 June
till 3 July the Lions Convention takes place in Birmingham,
shortly after the Concert at Althorp
House. I intend to visit these celebrations together with
a Colleague
- or some more colleagues - of mine and hope to utilize the occasion
to discuss with You and Earl
Charles the setting up of the European
Cervantes Foundation together with You as a charity-organization
and the commercial organization Instituto
Cervantes Holding Ltd to be established in Stratford-upon-Avon
in good collaboration with Your brother Earl
Charles. First of all therefore We need a financial support.
As I see that Our
Princess Diana Fund is receiving new donations every day
I kindly request You to transmit a substantial amount to my Foundation
Cervantes Benelux in order to continue Our Quixotic Quest
as from today. For Your kind collaboration We thank You in advance.
Hoping to hear from you soon We remain, John
L. Van der Heyden - Netherlands."
,
V