The letters have been translated by another specialist in the department, Cecilie Gasseholm, who is Danish but speaks fluent Swedish.
In the 1932 film Grand Hotel, Garbo muttered the memorable line “I want to be alone”, and she never escaped that quote.
In 1936, Garbo was making bleak jokes about the abdication crisis: “Dear Mrs Simpson, now her quiet days are over.
The letters show that when she was alone she was achingly lonely.
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