Princess Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, shared a rare family photo that feature him, Diana, and their two older sisters and father John Spencer that dates back to 1972.
Starr is a News Writer for InStyle. She has worked in pop culture and entertainment since 2017 and has been with InStyle since 2024.Princess Diana will always remained missed by royal fans, but she is thankfully survived by her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, and her Spencer family members who wish to keep her memory alive in touching ways.
In the sepia-toned photo, Diana is seen posing in front of a window for a family photo alongside her father, John Spencer, who sports a classy suit and tie. Her two sisters, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes, shoot the camera wide, bright-eyes smiles, with Charles—in his own tiny suit and age appropriate bowl haircut—giving the camera a subtle smirk.
Diana, who is seated off to the far right side of the photograph, gives the camera a steely look, holding on to the window curtain and looking over her shoulder as if she didn't realize a photo was being taken. The future princess, who would have been between 10 and 11-year-old, wore sharp bangs with flippy ends, and wore a sweet layered long sleeve top with a skirt. "Family photograph, 1972, Earl captioned the throwback image.
Charles, however, revealed that the absence of their mother was hard on them growing up. “Diana and I had two older sisters who were away at school, so she and I were very much in it together and I did talk to her about it,” he explained in 2020 interview in . “Our father was a quiet and constant source of love, but our mother wasn’t cut out for maternity. Not her fault, she couldn’t do it. She was in love with someone else—infatuated, really.
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