Princess Diana’s brother Earl Charles Spencer discusses the eulogy he scrapped


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He decided to celebrate Diana’s life and loves at her Sept 6, 1997, funeral at Westminster Abbey. Photos: Earl Charles Spencer/Instagram, TNS

Earl Charles Spencer, younger brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, originally planned a “very different” eulogy than the controversial speech he ended up delivering at her funeral nearly 30 years ago, he told a British podcaster.

Spencer jumped onto a redeye to Britain from his then-home in South Africa after receiving the devastating news of Diana’s death in a Paris car crash in August 1997, he told Gyles Brandreth in a Friday (Oct 24) edition of the host’s Rosebud podcast. “I was in bits,” he said.

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