Earl Spencer, who in the past has come under fire for criticising the Royal Family, seems to have offered an olive branch to the Windsors. In a radio interview on the 20th anniversary of his sister’s marriage to the Prince of Wales, the aristocrat said that he had “nothing against” the heir to the throne, and admitted that his fears for the future of his two nephews had proved unfounded.
The Earl’s eulogy delivered from the pulpit of Westminster Abbey at Diana’s funeral, was loaded with barbed comments about the Windsors. He hinted that he was unhappy with the Royal Family’s treatment of the Princess and vowed that her sons’ “blood family” would do all they could to enable them to “sing openly” as she had wanted.
But he told LBC interviewer Gyles Brandreth: “My concerns at the time never came to the fore because the boys have their heads screwed on very well. It’s all been fine and they are incredibly well balanced.”
And he also said that he has no objection to his former brother-in-law marrying again, after Prince Charles gave rise to speculation in an interview that he would make an honest woman out of Camilla. “I have always thought it was none of my business at all what he did in his private life,” said the Earl.
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