Princess Diana.Photo: Althorp House/Instagram
Princess Diana— in pigtails!
“1 July 1961 was an exceptionally hot English summer’s day, Diana’s parents always remembered,” Charles wrote in the photo’s caption.
Diana sported her hair in pigtails, along with a white sweater, coordinating skirt and knee socks.
Charles, 57, is known to share throwback images of his older sister. In November 2020, he posted a sweet photograph that showed him standing next to his much taller older sister as she embraced him with one arm.
Charles Spencer and Princess Diana.Amanda Edwards/WireImage; Tim Graham Photo Library/Getty
Princess Diana, who died at age 36 following a car crash in Paris in August 1997, is buried on an island in the heart of a small lake at the Spencer family estate at Althorp.
Diana’s younger brother recently said hevisits the grave, sometimes with his family, frequently throughout the year. “Every landmark day, such as birthday, Mother’s Day, I always take flowers,” he toldGood Morning Britain. “I do go a lot, and it’s an oasis of calm, and it’s a lovely place to go.”
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Charles, who attended the statue unveiling at Kensington Palace, said her 60th birthday would be an “emotional day.”
“I remember my father always used to talk about the day Diana was born, 1st July 1961, and it was a sweltering hot day and this wonderful daughter appeared,” he said. “It’s so funny to be of an age now where your slightly older sister’s 60. It will be an emotional day, but it will be a tribute to a much missed and much loved sister, mother, etc.”
source: people.com
