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earl spencer She has said that she finds it very difficult when strangers tell her where they were when her sister was a princess. Diana dead.
charles spencer discussed their grief On author Giles Brandreth’s podcast, rose plantAs he shared how he becomes “fundamentally unhappy” Birthday His Death every year.
He said: “I tell you I find it quite difficult… It probably sounds unnatural but sometimes complete strangers come forward and feel they have to tell me where they were when they heard she died.
“I’m sure it’s helpful for them, it’s just not helpful for everyone else.”
The British colleague gave the example of an American woman who said she had grown up with Diana in South Dakota.
He said that she “clutched me to her huge chest and said I might have thought I grew up with Diana, but actually she grew up in South Dakota”.
He added, “You just have to smile, no matter what.”
The earl said he and his seven children cut flowers and visited Diana’s grave at the family’s Althorp estate to mark the day of her death. She is buried in the grounds of the Northamptonshire estate where she grew up.
“I try to stay really busy on August 31st because it’s really, really sad,” he told Mr. Brandreth.
He reflected on Diana’s “extraordinary” legacy and compared it to picking out parts of a horoscope that fit you.
“It’s different things to different people, especially women the same age. They’ve really invested their lives in it,” she said. “Maybe they had an unhappy marriage, maybe they struggled with an eating disorder. There’s a lot for Diana to look at and take your share of that from – almost like a horoscope, you can figure it out for yourself.”
Lord Fellowes, a friend of the Earl who created Downton Abbey, told him that Diana’s appeal was partly due to “some unhappiness” about her.
He told Mr Brandreth: “Of course, she had married into the royal family, she was beautiful and very charismatic, but he also said that ‘like great film stars, there was something unhappy there that caused a really emotional reaction.’
Earl Spencer spoke earlier this year after a Building in the Princess’s former home In May it was targeted in a suspected arson attack.
Firefighters attended the scene overnight after reports of a blaze at a farmhouse on the Althorp estate, home to the Grade I-listed stately home where the late Princess of Wales grew up.
Sharing pictures of a large fire on social media, the earl said he was “shocked” to learn that the farmhouse had “apparently been burnt down by vandals last night”.
Noting that the building was empty at the time, the late princess’s younger brother said: “So sad that no one would think it was a funny thing.”