an unpublished photo of his grave unveiled by his brother Charles Spencer

A delicate tribute. On the night of August 31, 1997, Princess Diana tragically disappeared in a car accident in Paris. While her companion at the time, Dodi Al-Fayed, and the driver of the vehicle were killed instantly, the ex-wife of King Charles III, she succumbed to her injuries a few hours later when she arrived. to the hospital. A news that was quick to go around the kingdom, plunging the British into immense mourning while since her entry into the royal family, Lady Diana was fondly nicknamed “the princess of hearts”. After a state funeral, attended by thousands, her remains were transferred to Althorp, the historic home of the Spencer family where she spent much of her childhood.

It is from there that, on Sunday October 23, her brother Charles Spencer had a tender thought for her, as evidenced by his last Instagram post. “Beautiful autumn colors in Althorp Park today”he wrote in the caption of a photo of the temple which is dedicated to the memory of Lady Dianaand that “was originally commissioned by [leur] ancestor George John Spencer”. A place “where kind visitors like to lay flowers in memory of Diana”, he said, adding that this temple overlooks Round Oval Lake, where the mother of Princes William and Harry actually rests. Indeed, this small temple on which her name is written in capital letters is not the tomb of Lady Diana. It was on the island just opposite this place of memory, in the center of the lake, that she was buried.

A symbolic place for Lady Diana

Symbolized by a column overhung by the sculpture of an urn, it is in the middle of water and trees that Lady Diana is indeed found, in a place “ideal” for her according to her brother, “notably for its beauty and tranquility”. It was Charles Spencer himself, in agreement with his family and advisers, who had decided to bury his eldest sister on this small island in order to protect her tomb which, unlike the temple facing it, is not accessible to the public. “We have had four attempts to steal his body in the last twenty years”had thus entrusted the Earl Spencer to BBC Radio 4 in 2017, specifying that all these attempts had been “repelled”. A safe place therefore for Lady Diana, who rests forever in the place where she would have passed “the best years of his life”.