He is a historian, journalist and broadcaster, and manages the Althorp estate, the Spencers' ancestral seat in Northamptonshire. The Earl has seven children, including Lady Kitty Spencer.

Diana never became close to her stepfather and remained with her father, Earl Spencer, at their Althorp home. Her mother divorced Mr Shand Kydd, who made his money from wallpaper manufacturing ...

Referring to her island grave in the grounds of her family home at Althorp in Northamptonshire, he added: 'I think her final resting place is a lonely and isolated place. I hate to think of her ...