Princess Dianathe marriage of nowKing Charles III changed his brother Charles Spencerhis life giving him an unexpected career.
“Leaving the tragedy 28 years apartit was an extraordinary thing for my family,” Spencer, 61, said during a recent appearance on the channel “Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth” podcast.. “I had a career after that, if I’m being honest, of 10 years working at NBC as a correspondent.”
Spencer initially had a job “in the record industry” before someone suggested she try journalism. Prince Andrew i Sarah Ferguson they married in 1986 and the network needed “a commentator for the wedding.” Initially, her job was to do “some reporting” for NBC, but something changed when she covered the wedding.
“I worked for a month doing some reporting for NBC, the other two networks (ABC and CBS) cut commercials because they ran out of things to say, and I was still talking about God knows what when they went out on the balcony to kiss,” Spencer recalled, alluding to NBC being the only network that had the moment on live TV. “The executive producer said, ‘Oh my God…I’ll hire you,’ and that turned into a 10-year career.”
Princess Diana’s brother Charles Spencer visits his sister’s grave at the Spencer family’s ancestral home in Althorp “almost every day”, he revealed during the Tuesday 15 October episode of Good Morning Britain. Diana died at the age of 36 in a car accident in 1997 in Paris and was buried on a small island near the Ronda (…)
Spencer also spoke candidly about her late sister’s marriage to the now king.
“She seemed so happy,” Spencer said of Diana, noting that she remembers “parts” of her wedding day. After the ceremony, Spencer wondered if “everything would go back to normal” now that they were married.
“No one knew what it would become,” he explained. “I just thought, ‘Well, they got married. It’s okay.'”
Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer at Buckingham Palace on the day they announced their engagement.
Photo library by Tim Graham via Getty ImagesCharles and Diana were married from 1981 to 1992. Throughout their marriage, Charles had an affair with his wife now, Queen Camilla.
Years after their divorce was finalized, Diana died suddenly in August 1997 at the age of 36 after being involved in a car accident while in Paris.
During her appearance on the “Rosebud” podcast, Spencer explained what made him change the praise read at Diana’s funeral in September 1997.
“(I) got off the plane at Heathrow (airport), called my mum and said, ‘I can’t think who’s going to do the eulogy. And I have a terrible feeling it’s going to have to be me,'” he recalled. “And she said, ‘Well, it’s going to be you. Your sisters and I have decided.”
Princess Diana left a great legacy after her death in 1997. Diana married into England’s royal family in July 1981, when she and King Charles III (then Prince Charles) exchanged vows. The couple soon welcomed heirs to the throne, with Diana giving birth to Prince William in 1982 and Prince Harry two (…)
Spencer initially crafted a “very traditional eulogy” about Diana and her life. “Well that’s ridiculous, that’s not who she was,” she decided before turning things around. I wanted to “speak for her” with the speech.
“And I knew that she had left me at that stage, I didn’t have legitimacy, but I knew that she had left me as the guardian of her children,” Spencer added in reference to Prince William i Prince Harry who were 15 and 12 years old, respectively, at the time.
“Obviously the other parent is alive, that didn’t mean anything, but it meant something to me. I think that kind of duty,” Spencer said, acknowledging that Charles would take care of it of the boys “And then I wrote (the eulogy) in an hour and a half, and, yeah, that was it, really.”