{"id":609267,"date":"2026-09-23T13:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/609267\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T13:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:56:14","slug":"swan-song-is-it-about-princess-diana-or-earl-spencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/609267\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan Song \u2013 is it about Princess Diana or Earl Spencer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">\u201cSpencer\u2019s vanity is on show\u2026 Spencer is thinking about his own legacy, and he wants to go down in history as the fiercely loyal brother who delivered a eulogy for the ages, and not as the brother who, as was reported at the time, denied Diana sanctuary on the Althorp estate in the last year of her life when she was desperate to escape the attentions of the paparazzi. (He explains here that he denied that request over security concerns, and in fact offered her a larger property which she turned down.)\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSpencer\u2019s vanity is on show\u2026 Spencer is thinking about his own legacy, and he wants to go down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-609267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}