Charles Spencer Visits the Althorp House Memorial to His Late Sister Princess Diana

For the previous couple of weeks, Charles Spencer, the ninth Earl Spencer, has been posting photographs on social media displaying his ancestral property, Althorp House, because the seasons change. On Tuesday, he shared a picture displaying a current go to to the property’s memorial honoring his late sister, Princess Diana.

After her loss of life in 1997, Diana was buried on a small island contained in the Oval, a lake on the grounds of her household dwelling, about 250 yards away from the primary home. An present Doric temple on the grounds was changed into a memorial for the late princess, and it options her silhouette in marble alongside two quotations and a steel bench. Thirty-six oak timber have been planted alongside the lake, one for every year of her life. In 2017, Prince William, Princess Kate, and Prince Harry joined the Spencer household at Althorp for a ceremony to rededicate the gravesite after an in depth renovation. 

In his January memoir Spare, Harry stated he took spouse Meghan Markle for her first go to to the island, which may solely be accessed by rowboat, throughout a 2022 journey to the UK. “Uncle Charles came down to the water’s edge, gave us a little shove. We waved to him, and to my two aunts. Bye. See you in a bit,” he wrote of the journey. “Gliding across the pond, I gazed around at Althorp’s rolling fields and ancient trees, the thousands of green acres where my mother grew up, and where, though things weren’t perfect, she’d known some peace.”

On Thanksgiving, Spencer shared an image of a current go to to Malibu with the caption, “Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans – from Manhattan to Malibu (both of which I’ve visited in the past few weeks)” and a turkey emoji. No phrase on if he visited Harry and Meghan, who stay an hour’s drive north in Montecito, a small Santa Barbara enclave.