Charles, Earl Spencer marked the birthday of his beloved sister, the late Diana, Princess of Wales, on Tuesday with a touching tribute. Earl Spencer took to his social media to post a throwback snap of what would have been Diana’s 64th birthday.
The late Princess of Wales was born on July 1st, 1961 at Park House on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk. She died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997. Her younger brother took to his X and Instagram accounts to post an adorable old snap of him with her from 1967 during her 6th birthday party.
The black and white photo showed a young Charles and Diana riding a camel, with their father, John, Earl Spencer, looking on.
Charles captioned the photo: “Remembering an earlier July 1st – that of 1967, when my father thrilled all of us at Diana’s 6th birthday by getting Bert the camel over for the afternoon, from Peterborough Zoo…!”
Royal fans rushed to the comment section to praise the earl for his sweet tribute. One user wrote: “Thank you for sharing it’s lovely to see on Diana on her birthday with her family.”
A second fan added: “Happy heavenly birthday Princess Diana! Queen of our hearts! You are truly missed.” Another commented: “How cute. Thank you for sharing this memory of Diana on her birthday.” A fourth agreed, saying: “What an absolute precious memory. Thank you for sharing! I see she let you sit in front. So cute.”
Meanwhile, Diana’s eldest son, Prince William, marked his mother’s birthday by celebrating a project close to her heart.
The Prince of Wales headed to Sheffield to appear on a discussion panel with former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and entrepreneur Steven Bartlett to mark the second anniversary of his homelessness initiative Homewards.
The five-year campaign is a major long-term focus for William, who has told of how visiting shelters with his late mother when he was a child left a deep and lasting impression and inspired his work.
During the on-stage discussion in Sheffield on Tuesday, William said part of Homewards’s aim was to “change the narrative around what homelessness is” and the fact that “homelessness is always about housing, but it’s not just about housing”.
The prince said the initiative also looked at employment opportunities for people who “have found themselves, for many reasons, not through their own making, outside of society”.
William told audience members: “You are literally excluded from society unless somebody comes along with a good-natured heart and goes ‘I’ll give you a chance’.
“If we wait for that to happen, it’s going to take a very long time to fix the problem. There are a lot of good-natured people in this world, but it’s hard for them to all make those connections.”