In another image, the Duke and Duchess are walking down one of Althorp\u2019s avenues in the summer sun, with Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lillibet, 5, by their side. The children can be seen carrying beautiful bouquets of flowers, suggesting that the family may have visited Princess Diana\u2019s grave, which lies at the centre of the Oval Lake on the Althorp estate and is deliberately inaccessible to the public.<\/p>\n
Explaining the location of his sister\u2019s final resting place in a book, Earl Spencer described the lake as \u2018a buffer against the interventions of the insane and ghoulish, the thick mud presenting a further line of defence.\u2019<\/p>\n
It would not be the first time that Prince Harry brought his wife to visit his mother\u2019s grave. In his autobiography, Spare, the Duke of Sussex recounts taking a boat across the lake with Meghan on the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana\u2019s death. \u2018I led Meg up the path, around a hedge, through the labyrinth. There it was, looming: the greyish white oval stone. No visit to this place was ever easy, but this one… Twenty-fifth anniversary. And Meg\u2019s first time. At long last I was bringing the girl of my dreams home to meet mum,\u2019 he wrote.<\/p>\n
He continued: \u2018We hesitated, hugging, and then I went first. I placed flowers on the grave. Meg gave me a moment, and I spoke to my mother in my head, told her I missed her, asked her for guidance and clarity. Feeling that Meg might also want a moment, I went around the hedge, scanned the pond. When I came back, Meg was kneeling, eyes shut, palms against the stone. I asked, as we walked back to the boat, what she\u2019d prayed for. \u201cClarity,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd guidance.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In another image, the Duke and Duchess are walking down one of Althorp\u2019s avenues in the summer sun,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[234970,234968,6491,46362,234969,96,50,983,2724,98,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-althorp","tag-archie-mountbatten-windsor","tag-celebrities","tag-duchess-of-sussex","tag-earl-spencer","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-prince-harry","tag-princess-diana","tag-royals","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}