{"id":1989939,"date":"2025-08-31T17:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1989939"},"modified":"2025-08-31T17:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:20:04","slug":"charles-spencer-honors-sister-princess-diana-28-years-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/charles-spencer-honors-sister-princess-diana-28-years-after-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Spencer Honors Sister Princess Diana 28 Years After Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/princess-diana\/\"><strong>Princess Diana<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s brother, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/charles-spencer\/\"><strong>Charles Spencer<\/strong><\/a>, is paying tribute to his sister 28 years after her death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlowers we cut this morning from Althorp\u2019s gardens for the Island,\u201d Spencer, 61, wrote via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOA6Z-6jWYh\/?img_index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> on Sunday, August 31. \u201cAlways an impossible day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the message, Spencer shared a photo of a bouquet of pink and white flowers and another image of the private island where Diana is buried at Althorp Estate in West Northamptonshire, England. Charles has been custodian of the estate since 1992, after the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/princess-dianas-family-guide-siblings-songs-more\/\">death of his father<\/a>, <strong>John Spencer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Diana died at age 36 in a 1997 car accident in Paris. She was survived by her two sons, <strong>Prince William <\/strong>and<strong> Prince Harry<\/strong>, whom she shared with <strong>King Charles III<\/strong>. In 2024, Diana\u2019s brother revealed that he visits her gravesite \u201cnearly every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOA6Z-6jWYh\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd of course, she\u2019s buried at home,\u201d Charles said on an episode of <em>Good Morning Britain<\/em>. \u201cYes, she is, and I go pretty much every day. Last week, one of her closest childhood friends came and was on the island. And that was so nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The island where Diana is buried is currently only accessible by boat, with no access to the general public. At one point, there was a bridge that connected the island to the estate \u2014 but Harry, now 40, shared that it has since been removed to protect the family\u2019s privacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bridge had been removed, to give my mother privacy, to keep intruders away,\u201d Harry wrote in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/prince-harrys-spare-10-most-unexpected-stories\/\">his 2023 memoir<\/a>, <em>Spare<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the book, Harry recalled bringing wife <strong>Meghan Markle<\/strong> to the gravesite for the first time in 2022. (The couple, who tied the knot in 2018, have since welcomed son Archie and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/news\/meghan-markle-shares-rare-glimpse-of-daughter-lilibet\/\">daughter Lilibet<\/a> in 2019 and 2021, respectively. Lilibet\u2019s middle name, Diana, was given to her in honor of Harry\u2019s late mom.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/princess-dianas-brother-charles-spencer-visits-her-grave-almost-daily\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/princess-dianas-brother-charles-spencer-visits-her-grave-almost-daily\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Princess Diana\u2019s Brother Charles Spencer Visits Her Grave Almost Daily<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tCharles Spencer, brother of Princess Diana, visits his sister\u2019s grave at the Spencer family ancestral home of Althorp \u201cnearly every day,\u201d he revealed during the Tuesday, October 15, episode of Good Morning Britain. Diana died at age 36 in a 1997 car accident in Paris and was interred on a small island near the Round [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cNo visit to this place was ever easy, but this one \u2026 25th anniversary,\u201d Harry wrote in <em>Spare<\/em>. \u201cAnd Meg\u2019s first time. At long last, I was bringing the girl of my dreams home to meet mum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harry continued, \u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Harry and Meghan, now 44, walked back to the boat, he asked what she was praying for. \u201cClarity,\u201d she said, according to Harry. \u201cAnd guidance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princess Diana\u2019s brother, Charles Spencer, is paying tribute to his sister 28 years after her death. \u201cFlowers we cut this morning from Althorp\u2019s gardens for the Island,\u201d Spencer, 61, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, August 31. \u201cAlways an impossible day.\u201d Alongside the message, Spencer shared a photo of a bouquet of pink and white flowers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1989940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,21738,22091],"class_list":["post-1989939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-news","tag-the-royals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Charles-Spencer-Honors-Sister-Princess-Diana-28-Years-After-Death.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1989940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}