2026-09-20 · The Sydney Morning Herald
🔮 Earl Spencer said the tabloid treatment of both Diana and Harry and Meghan could be “really, really unpleasant”, and that it was “beholden on people” to learn from that experience.
Diana died aged 36 in a 1997 Paris car crash as photographers pursued her car on motorbikes, and her death sparked an outpouring of grief and a reckoning over whether the media bore some responsibility after it splashed details of her life across front pages for years.
“From a security aspect, as an uncle who’s seen his sister die in very, very preventable circumstances, I would veer towards protection,” Charles Spencer told the BBC, citing Harry’s position as fifth in line to the British throne and as a former soldier. assertive