Princess Diana's brother breaks down how it felt to ‘lose an arm'
Princess Diana’s brother has tugged at heartstrings with his admission about feeling an ‘amputation’ underway when his sister died
May 16, 2025
Charles Earl Spencer, Princess Diana’s brother recently stepped forward to share what it really felt like to lose his sister back in 1997.
He described the entire thing as a ‘great loss” in a chat with Loose Women and said, “It’s such an amputation.”
Because “you grow up with these people, they are your flesh and blood, they’re with you forever and then they’re gone.”
“You expect obviously first grandparents and then parents to go, and there’s the awful tragedy you mentioned of children going, but siblings, it’s a really extraordinary thing.”
He also went on to say, “because your instant thing for years after, after Diana died, I would think I must ring her and tell her something, because we shared the same sense of humour, and you just realise of course that’s not going to happen.”
“And then actually,” that time does come when “your family naturally folds in on itself,” he recounted.
Before concluding he also said, “You lose your parents. I have two sisters I adore, they’re quite a lot older than me, so I don’t have, I don’t share my childhood with anyone anymore. And that’s a great loss that you can never really put right.”
