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Diana's brother tells 'Marie Claire' that Raine Spencer was 'a classic unfortunate stepmother.'
Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsin her later years. It’s a decision Earl Spencer didn’t quite understand at the time, and as he tells, the earl writes about his childhood with Princess Diana and the shock they experienced when his father married socialite Raine McCorquodale.
The siblings called her “Acid Raine” and Diana even pushed her down the stairs in a shocking incident detailed in the book, yet the princess seemed to warm to her stepmom in the late ‘90s.
“You know, Raine was, in many ways, a classic unfortunate stepmother for us,” Spencer says. “And yet, for Diana, she was something to almost be played with, you know, at the end. ”, Earl Spencer recalls his surprise at seeing how kindly Diana treated Raine at their father’s funeral, writing that he felt his sister was “playing to the gallery at the cost of integrity.
”“I actually, genuinely—this is not because I, as it is clear, I don't like Raine—I don't think Diana ever liked Raine," Earl Spencer shares.
“But she was having trouble with our mother. Diana and my mother had fallen out. So, Diana knew that sort of publicly befriending Raine would be very painful to my mother. ”Celebrity news, beauty, fashion advice, and fascinating features, delivered straight to your inbox!
Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsDodi Fayed, at the time.
"I think Raine had this grifter quality to her. So exchanging a date with her stepdaughter with the man who was effectively employing her and his son was the sort of way she operated, you know?
" Earl Spencer says. Although Raine was responsible for connecting the duo, who died in a car crash when they were visiting Paris, Earl Spencer says he doesn't blame his late stepmother.
"I think that would be unfair on Raine, to be honest," he shares. Kristin Contino is Marie Claire's Senior Royal and Celebrity editor. She's been covering royalty since 2018—including major moments such as the Platinum Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth II’s death and King Charles III's coronation—and places a particular focus on the British Royal Family's style and what it means.. ” She's passionate about travel, history, horses, and learning everything she can about her favorite city in the world, London.
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