{"id":777644,"date":"2026-09-21T08:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777644\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:58:12","slug":"earl-spencer-says-he-has-never-got-over-the-death-of-diana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777644\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Spencer says he has \u2018never got over\u2019 the death of Diana"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Earl Spencer<\/a> struggled to hold back tears when asked how much he misses Princess Diana<\/a> in a newly released TV interview.<\/p>\n

Speaking to BBC\u2019s Laura Kuenssberg, the earl said he misses his sister \u201ceveryday\u201d, adding: \u201cThat\u2019s the thing with sibling loss, you never get over it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt really breaks me up, when I look at old photographs of Diana and then think about what happened to her. It\u2019s terribly sad.\u201d<\/p>\n

The earl also addressed the explosive accusation in his book that Charles was \u201cin love with his valet\u201d, as he said: \u201cI can absolutely swear that [Diana] said those words to me.\u201d <\/p>\n

The earl has made a series of damning claims about the King in a new memoir chronicling his sister\u2019s life that prompted the palace to push back, saying \u201cthe pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"EarlEarl Spencer said Diana \u2018disliked\u2019 al-Fayed, the Daily Mail reports (Reuters)<\/p>\n

He is also said to have claimed that Diana told him Mohamed al-Fayed had \u201cdropped a hand onto her buttocks and squeezed them\u201d, early in her romance with his son Dodi Fayed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The earl said Diana \u201cdisliked\u201d Fayed, the Daily Mail<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

According to the Daily Mail, the earl writes: \u201cShe (Diana) told me with revulsion how, early in her romance with Dodi, Mohamed had come up to her, dropped a hand onto her buttocks and squeezed them while saying in a leery, suggestive tone, \u2018And in Egypt, father-in-law gets first go\u2026\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

It comes after a documentary exposing allegations of rape and sexual abuse against al-Fayed aired on the BBC two years ago.<\/p>\n

Two years on, more than 400 allegations of sexual misconduct have now been made against the late Harrods owner and other individuals linked to him, dating between 1977 and 2014 \u2013 including sexual assault, rape, sexual exploitation and human trafficking.<\/p>\n

The Metropolitan Police<\/a> is dealing with at least 159 victims who contacted it directly, including 21 who came forward before al-Fayed\u2019s death in 2023 at the age of 94.<\/p>\n

Writing in his bombshell memoir, the earl said he named Dodi Fayed in an early draft of his eulogy for Diana\u2019s funeral, \u201cthanking him by name for making Diana happy in her last few weeks\u201d, but removed it before delivering it.<\/p>\n

In his highly anticipated memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister<\/a>, the earl has made bombshell allegations about King Charles\u2019 conduct<\/a> around his ex-wife Princess Diana up to and following her death.<\/p>\n

\"MoreMore than 400 allegations of sexual misconduct have been made about al-Fayed and individuals connected to him (PA Archive)<\/p>\n

Revelations from the book, currently being serialised by the Daily Mail<\/a> before it is published next Tuesday, have previously focused on the King\u2019s behaviour, from statements he made to Diana before their marriage to comments he made to the earl <\/a>before her funeral.<\/p>\n

Earl Spencer gave an interview to the BBC ahead of the book\u2019s publication in which he insisted everything he said was true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,98,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-777644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-royals","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777644","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=777644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}