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Earl Charles Spencer lost a part of herself when her younger sister Princess Diana was killed almost 30 years ago.
May 15th, he Appeared in “Loose Men” In honor of Mental Health Awareness Week, who discussed his brother’s grief.
“It’s very amputated,” said the 60-year-old. “You grew up with these people, they are your flesh and blood, they will be with you forever, and then they will be gone.”
Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, reveals devastating family secrets
In a special edition of the talk show “Ruth Women,” entitled “Loose Men,” Earl Charles Spencer spoke about how he elicited grief after Princess Diana’s death in 1997. (Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)
“It’s really extraordinary,” the historian replied.
Diana passed away in 1997 She was injured in a car accident in Paris. She was 36 years old. At the time, the two mothers were being chased by paparazzi.
Spencer pointed out that sadness never goes away.
Princess Diana died of injuries sustained in a car accident. She was 36 years old. (Terry Fincher/Princess Diana Archives/Getty Images)
“For years after Diana passed away, I think, ‘I have to ring her and tell her something.’ “And of course, you realize that it won’t happen.”
The author described how his sister played an important role in his childhood.
“You lose your parents because your family naturally folds into itself – I have two older sisters I admire,” Spencer explained. “They’re much older than me, so I don’t share my childhood with anyone. That’s a huge loss that you can never really do the right thing.”
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A photo of a family file of her younger brothers Earl Charles Spencer and Mrs Diana Spencer in 1968. (PA images via Getty Images)
With Spencer, the world saw Diana grow from a shy teenage nursery teacher to a gorgeous celebrity who comforted AIDS patients. She quickly became a common name Married to future King Charles III In 1981, when she was 20 years old. They welcomed two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, before the couple announced their separation in 1992. Their divorce was finalized in 1996.
Spencer said that even as a teenager, he felt urgency to protect his sister from the “photographer who is bothering her.”
“I remember a female journalist writing a truly terrifying article just before she passed away because at that stage I don’t think the journalist thought Diana was a person,” Spencer said. “She was meant to make money.”
From left: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince William, Earl Charles Spencer, Prince Harry, former Prince Charles at Princess Diana’s funeral at Westminster Abbey, London, England, September 6, 1997. (David Levenson/Getty Images)
“I wrote her an angry letter and went back and forth with her,” he said. “You always want to be stuck, especially as a sister’s brother.”
It was during Diana’s funeral that Spencer overturned his beloved brother in her life that he denounced the ruthless British press.
Spencer was 42 years old, but he first revealed that he was sexually abused as a child by a therapist. At the time, he “strode the bottom of a rock.” Seventeen years later, he detailed the trauma he endured in his memoir, “a very private school.”
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“Very Private School” by Earl Charles Spencer was published in 2024. (Gallery book)
He never spoke to Diana about his experience at Maidwell Hall, an elite English boarding school. However, as he was suffering from loneliness from his family, he often thought of his sister.
“She was the closest person to me,” he told Fox News Digital in 2024.
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“We did everything together,” he shared. “We went together to a very friendly elementary school, day school. [before boarding school]. She was an absolutely lovely older sister to a little boy whose parents divorced and who fostered very traditional English. We were allies. ”
Young Charles Spencer. (Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)
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At the time, a spokesman for Maidwell Hall did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Fox News Digital. It previously informed the authorities investigating crimes against children “today.” School officials also encourage past students with similar experiences to advance.
Today, Spencer wants the school to deal with the “honest way” of the past.
“I’ll say that [my younger self] “It wasn’t his fault,” Spencer said. “As a child, you always think it was your fault. I thought I must have failed as a son. I was sent to such a place and not part of the family. …But I tell him, “You’re fine. You came out on the other side.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
