Princess Diana did not live a very happy childhood, and in many interviews she said that the Althorp estate owned by her family where they had lived for years was a dream, but that her parents did not take her very much into account.
Diana was born in 1961, in an aristocratic family, where Queen Elizabeth ll was already doing her work, and even attended her parents’ wedding in 1954.
He had two older sisters, Jane and Sarah, and a younger brother, Charles, who is the current Earl Spencer. And it is the aristocrat who told in an interview how they were affected by the fact that his mother abandoned them, when his little sister was just 5 years old.
Spencer, 57, and his current wife, Karen, 48, recently gave a long interview to the British newspaper The Times where they talk about their marriage, the Althorp estate and also about Diana.
According to Charles, the brothers had a very close relationship. That is why it is common to find childhood photographs of both laughing and playing together.
Between them, they were less than three years older than each other, although Sarah was 6 years older than Diana and 9 years older than Charles; and Jane got 4 from one and 7 from the other.
Due to their parents’ divorce, they became closer as brothers and he also referred to the boarding schools they would later attend:
Diana and I had two older sisters who were away at school. So she and I were together on everything, and I talked to her a lot about it.
His mother, Frances Roche, decided to leave the home that she then shared with her husband, John Spencer. They were married in Westminster Abbey in 1954, when she was just 18 years old.
Then, in 1966, the young mother met millionaire Peter Shand Kydd, an Australian man 11 years her senior and heir to a wallpaper empire.
Diana’s mother’s new love was married, but after meeting her, he left his wife and a year later they decided to leave together and leave their respective families behind.
With their separation, Frances broke the relationship she had with her children and it was the father who kept custody of them:
Our father was a calm and constant source of love, but our mother was not cut out for motherhood. It wasn’t her fault, she just wasn’t up to it.
My mother was in love with someone else, infatuated, rather. As she gathered up her things to leave, she promised Diana that she would come back to see her. Diana used to wait for her at the front door of the house, but she never came back.
Diana and her mother, who also suffered from alcoholism, continued to have a cold and distant relationship as she grew up and became an adult. She stopped talking to her daughter four months before she died in a car accident in Paris in the summer of 1997, leaving Princess Diana with the pain of an absent mother.
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