Princess Diana’s brother Charles Spencer has poignantly admitted that he visits his older sister’s grave “pretty much every day” – 27 years after the royal tragically lost her life.
Charles shared the news on Tuesday’s episode of Good Morning Britain, when he recalled how he regularly visits his sister’s grave, at her burial site on the Spencer family ancestral home, Althorp. Charles has been the custodian of the estate since 1992, when his father John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer sadly died.
Tucked away on the lavish estate, the former Princess of Wales is buried on a picturesque island at an ornamental lake nestled deep within Althorp Park’s Pleasure Garden. Only accessible by boat, the secluded area is off limits to the public, with only a handful of her loved ones permitted to visit her final resting place.
“Last week, one of her closest childhood friends came and was on the island. And that was so nice,” said Spencer, who is 9th Earl Spencer.
When Diana died back in August 1997, her only brother eulogised her at her funeral the following month, and still continues to mourn her death every day, almost three decades after her tragic loss.
“I’m sure pretty much everyone watching this program has had trauma in their family at some point,” he said on Good Morning Britain. “And, like everyone else, you sort of get used to it without it ever going away.”
Although the grave remains secluded now, it wasn’t always inaccessible to the public, with Prince Harry himself having previously written in his memoir Spare, that a bridge was previously in-situ for people to pay their respects, however it was later removed over security concerns.
