Earl Spencer eulogy at Princess Diana's Funeral on September 6, 1997.

[@normadesmond6017]

This was a wonderful eulogy for his sister. And for all of us, and for her, because he did tell the truth.

[@nicolelawless9942]

I bet my sister would have done this if i had died in hospital 7 months ago now. I couldn’t have imagined my sister, Mummy and Woody.EXE’s grief if this did happen but the 3 of them are grateful that I’m still alive today

[@jackieporter5323]

It was showboating all the things he said about caring for his sister was a nonsense. All the children in the Spencer family were separated from a young age, their father had sole custody of them, not because he wanted them but because he didn’t want Frances to have them…..they all went to separate boarding schools, so hardly saw each other. Charles Spencer would not have Althorp if Diana hadn’t married Prince Charles ..the Spencer’s were in financial difficulties it was very much an arranged marriage……he like his father is a wife beating bully, now looking for £10million pounds to fund his third divorce. The pledges he made to his sister from that pulpit were a travesty, he did nothing for his own children he had by a multiplicity of women. The Spencer genes are rather tainted, Diana had many psychological issues, what we are seeing in Harry is just a part of that,

[@gailhancocks5207]

Wasn't that the father's fault 😂

[@gailhancocks5207]

And blame the Queen, she wasn't so bloody innocent 😂

[@normadesmond6017]

@@gailhancocks5207 agree. this was one of the very few mistakes she made.

[@InsignificantNick]

"Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum." Beautiful.

[@gretchenciarlo167]

The treatment of Harry and Meg brought me here. And the support the Spencer family showed Harry. Outstanding! He said an entire lot without saying!

[@Ladybird22373]

Did they when 🤣. You must be from the USA. Meg was some dumped z lister before Harry . The RF made her hence she keeps using the title 🤣

[@fionabuck3937]

This is brilliant, i applaud her brother

[@nicolelawless9942]

So did I and this hit differently after I nearly died and I would have joined his sister

[@estoforte388]

He was still a relatively young man here, aged 33. Despite his grief, and in front of an audience of 2 billion people, he delivered a speech more articulate than many seasoned world leaders could ever hope to make.

[@jackieporter5323]

@@estoforte388 he delivered it, he didn’t write it!

[@antheamaybin3298]

Allegedly Boris Johnson wrote it​@jackieporter5323

[@jackieporter5323]

@@antheamaybin3298 I would question that, I understood it was Darius Guppy.

[@deonarineprasad8305]

When a brother’s heart for his sister is pierced, he must unapologetically, release from that wounded heart its bleeding emotion to a shocked and grieving family and world.

[@jackieporter5323]

@@deonarineprasad8305 the sister he didn’t speak to for months.

[@lisaarthurton]

I still believe this was one of the best speeches the world has ever witnessed. X

[@jackieporter5323]

@@lisaarthurton really? You should get out more. He is an odious hypocrite, he used his sisters funeral to grandstand himself, the empty pledge about caring for Diana’s blood family was a travesty …they hadn’t spoken in months. Diana wanted a cottage on the Althorp estate, true it was inhabited by an estate worker and his family, but she could have had accommodation . He did NOTHING for William and Harry and not much more for the children he had by a multiplicity if women, he, like us father is a foul tempered bully, a wife beater, now looking for £10:million to fund his third divorce. Had it not been for his sisters marriage into the Royal Family, Althorp would have had to be sold to pay off the crippling death duties his father owed , which is why Diana married, she knew what she was doing and why. The Spencers are totally dysfunctional…..Harry is exactly like his mother. The way they treated their mother, Frances, was despicable.

[@SleepExports]

​@jackieporter5323 You can't get thru to those who only see Diana as perfect. Reminds me of those who worshipped Savile before his death they'd hear no criticism about him.

[@laysbritto]

Amazing!! Thank you so much for sharing! Diana is INDESCRIBABLE ❤️

[@xhantitoyise3847]

2024 I’m here and in awe of this speech

[@marymcsherry1965]

He loved her very much

[@jackieporter5323]

That was such a travesty, those children didn’t spend anytime together after their parents divorce, their odious bully of a father sent them to boarding schools abd had little to do with them. He had been remarried for quite some before he told his children…..whereupon Diana attacked him and later pudge Raine down stairs! The whole family are unbalanced, what we are seeing in Harry is exactly what his mother was like.

[@estoforte388]

He's a fantastic orator.

[@billyariaria7259]

A great speech

[@annammapt6991]

A grief stricken brother speaks !

[@nicolelawless9942]

Exactly what my sister would’ve done if i had died in 2023 from being so ill. I finally spoke out of how it felt for my Mummy and my sister but it hit Woody.EXE the most knowing I was his only Queen he ever wanted and deserved. The 3 of them have been very traumatised in the last 19 months but I’m the most affected. I can’t believe it’s been almost 20 months since then

[@MarcreciaSpurlock]

Couldn’t have said it better and I love how he took shots at the royal family so gracefully she earned her title it is easier for a poor man than a rich to enter the kingdom of heaven and with her loving beautiful spirit she is one of God chosen 💐🥰🫶🏽💕💯❤️

[@KlMMl]

He’s so eloquent

[@valentinefontaine275]

His eulogy was so well written. I have seen this clip many times and I am always moved. I particularly love these followings moments : 3:30, And here we come to another truth about her. For all the status, the glamour, the applause, Diana remained throughout a very insecure person at heart, almost childlike in her desire to do good for others so she could release herself from deep feelings of unworthiness of which her eating disorders were merely a symptom.” 5:51 : “It is a point to remember that of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this - a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age.” 7:37 :”Above all we give thanks for the life of a woman I am so proud to be able to call my sister, the unique, the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana whose beauty, both internal and external, will never be extinguished from our minds."

[@cyntthiachan5872]

Beautiful eulogy n beautiful princess RIP 🙏 we all still love you ❤ 🎉.

[@jackieporter5323]

@@cyntthiachan5872 To which Eulogy are you referring ?

[@cyntthiachan5872]

Princess Diana read by Earl Spencer

[@jackieporter5323]

@@cyntthiachan5872 he used the occasion of his sisters death to his own aggrandisement. His personal vindictive catalogue . It was not a eulogy in the sense of the word. His sisters marriage saved his personal position, the Spencer’s were perilously close to being in such dire financial straits that Althorp was in danger being sold. His pledge of what he would do for the Princes as Diana’s blood family was a travesty , he didn’t even care for the children he had by a multiplicity of women. Like his father before him he is a wife beating, abusive man, is seeking £10 million pounds to fund his third divorce. He had not spoken to Diana or the Princes in months before her death, she asked for a cottage on the estate as a retreat ( admittedly there was a family already tenanting it, which Diana didn’t thing twice about ) but he pointed out that blank refused her , Simply because he could. He made an enormous amount of money out of her death , charging obscene amounts of money from her devotees and tourists to see her resting place. He was advised not to have her buried there because of the unsuitable state of the ground and the fact that it wasn’t consecrated. He has no regard for his blood family, his mother whom I knew , was treated appallingly, by him and by Diana . She lived a very secluded life on the West coast of Scotland, she suffered from Parkinson’s disease and later brain cancer , the grandmother if the future King is buried in a sadly neglected plot in a little country cemetery. Those are the Spencer family values. Avarice, The Spencer’s are the most dysfunctional family, it runs through the generations. What we are seeing in Harry is a mirror image of his mothers traits.

[@LynnDeatherage-q3k]

Great speech 💬💬💬😮😊😢❤🎉, And we really miss you Diana, love 💕😘 Lynn and Dori your American cousins of you father side.

[@billyariaria7259]

A great Princess Diana

[@mikeparkes7922]

So very many years on and still a superbly eloquent and passionate speech, painted with righteous grief, anger...and so much more.

[@alexsanderbarrosdeoliveira9845]

Traduzir

[@normadesmond6017]

would have loved to see the face of Prince Charles during this speech.

[@melissatucker4469]

I was wishing they'd show him. I don't thing Charles every truly loved her.

[@normadesmond6017]

@@melissatucker4469 I know for sure he didn't. He married her because she was the right woman for the part.

[@jackieporter5323]

@@normadesmond6017 and she married him to save the Spencer’s from financial ruin, she knew why she was marrying him, and in the end was grossly overpaid for what she did.

[@normadesmond6017]

@@jackieporter5323 you know nothing about what happened, do you? what country are you from?

[@gumdrop465]

​@@jackieporter5323 get urself checked 😅

[@kylehollie]

One of the most memorable moments, truth, feeling, emotion. She was uniquely Diana. A legend, humanitarian, a good person. We lack this today.

[@bellazoe1]

It was the greatest eulogy of our lifetime. You knew it then

[@clubredken13]

It is a point to remember that of all the ironies about Diana. Perhaps the greatest was this. A girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting. Was in the end the most hunted person of the modern age.

[@kausariqbal9765]

Best speech 😢

[@maggieclendenin6740]

I thought this was such a wonderful tribute to his sister

[@Tawadeb]

This was a lovely speech

[@SleepExports]

Vindictive

[@gailhancocks5207]

​@@SleepExportsgrow up

[@SleepExports]

@@gailhancocks5207 brilliant counter

[@tina8796]

That eulogy couldn't have been more beautiful and perfect.

[@dianewalker4633]

It couldn't have been more awful

[@xhantitoyise3847]

The unique the complex…. Beautiful Diana ❤❤❤

[@danishortcake4508]

That eulogy was everything. I remember at the time feeling like he was going to make a difference in the children's lives but I don't think I've ever saw them together more than once or twice, William is a future king whos loyaltys are to the crown til the day he dies and we all know how it played out for Harry! I dream about how different her life might have been if she'd have lived. How she would have been w her grandchildren. It would have been so lovely to see her with her children's children. ❤❤❤

[@mbarry415]

I think his pledge was to not “be seen” with them but to be in their lives.

[@juanaorozco3560]

I remember watcxhingnher funeral her in the United States when I was 18 years old. It aas so sad

[@precioustendo5167]

Here again in 2024…The eloquence! This should be used as a speech template in English lesson classrooms. This is when I knew what pure English sounds like! Keep resting in Peace Princess Diana.

[@jackieporter5323]

@@precioustendo5167 pure English, or what is known as received pronunciation is NOT used by Charles Spencer, or by his sister.

[@rebekahelliott5297]

I remember watching the funeral , and alot of the coverage from the first announcement until then. I was a kid at the time, but my brother had just died about 6 months before and the young princes were the first people I had seen who were close to my same age and dealing with such a difficult thing as loss and grief. Except of course they had to do it publicly and control their emotions. And that made it feel personal to me although of course I didn't personally know them. But I watched it all, pretty much, and there was so much anger! People were mad at the royal family, mad at the queen, felt her grief was cold - felt she should have had the flag lowered- that she shouldn't have argued about sending the royal plane for the body- that she shouldn't have "made" the boys go to church the next day, and above all anger toward the paparazzi. I remember George Clooney coming on camera and saying he had told everybody that this was going to happen! That things were being allowed to get more and more out of control and someone was going to end up getting killed. And now it had happened! And we still see people being knocked down, actually chased... with their terrified children in tow. Everyone was so angry but nothing actually changed!! And I remember vividly people in the crowds outside Buckingham and the abbey and people randomly being interviewed and ALL of them expressing such hatred and vehement anger toward the paparazzi - and deservedly. But I NEVER EVER heard anyone step up and take their own share of the responsibility. Nor have I heard anyone in all the years since then do it. Because yes- the way the paparazzi behave is extreme, dangerous, and unacceptable- but why do they do it? Because a good photo, especially if it is in someway exclusive is worth ALOT of money! And why is it worth so much? Because people aren't satisfied with professional staged photos of celebrities - they want candid snapshots showing their real lives and if they are embarrassing or scandalous in some way all the better. And a magazine has these type of photos - especially an exclusive shot that the other ones don't have- they sell better- so much better that the magazines are willing to pay huge bounties to any jerk who comes in with a good shot no matter how he got it. But it NEVER seemed to occur to anyone that every time you bought a magazine with those juicy scandalous shots - you were paying the paparazzi who killed her! And the truth was - as angry as people were and as sincerely as they felt the loss - they didn't feel it ENOUGH to pass that magazine by and say no more!- entertaining shots aren't worth someone's life! - I'll settle for the magazine that uses professional shots from photo sessions. I can't really believe this thought process didn't cross anyone's mind but crossed mine at 9 years old- I'm not anymore intelligent than anyone else. It's just easier to be mad at someone else than to be mad at yourself or change in a way you really don't want too. But even at that age when everyone was saying "shame on you" to the paparazzi and rightly so!- no one was saying "and shame on me" for making it worth so much money that it got this out of control. And even since then, we see a poor mother being chased with her sobbing children and we say "that's awful!"...... as we buy the magazine with the photos of it!

[@naimaboukhouf]

😢 How Elton John's looked sad

[@nicolelawless9942]

My sister would have been just as angry if i had died and the whole of Wales would have tuned in for my funeral 7 months ago to pay tribute to their Queen; I couldn’t have even imagined what Woody.EXE would’ve been feeling with the whole of Wales watching him

[@ChristineHarrison-ij4ne]

What a great speech ❤

[@PenelopePitstop-i5i]

They were really close. Beautiful Charles. That was not the whole thing. He also talked about the way the royal family treated like a piece of trash and I agree. I just realized today that Marilyn and Diana were the same age 36 when they died. 💜😥

[@makibautista8015]

I pray will and harry will watch this

[@mbarry415]

Pretty sure they were there.

[@mlbp2567]

Diana would support Harry

[@joannajonesmusic]

Harry talks about this speech in his book

[@anandomukerjee9762]

What a tragedy … what a tragedy 😢

[@PeteJones-on3xs]

Here in New Zealand, while we accept King Charles missing NZ on his October Aussie tour, we remember Diana & her brother

[@nicolelawless9942]

I hope Australia can go ahead for you all but if it doesn’t, the concern of the king’s health will grow more

[@fideliambaneme6078]

He said alot without actually saying it. The royal family constantly briefing the press about Diana led to her death. The same thing is happening to Meghan and Harry now.

[@whitneyanders5945]

Agreed. Harry and Meghan made the right decision moving away from the dysfunction.

[@sambillings7277]

I remember watch this as a 7 year old kid, in 1997, every word was like a knife in our late Queen Elizabeth back and the rest of the royal family

[@Hugomad2]

Harry looks just like his uncle

[@gailhancocks5207]

What uncle is that 😂

[@gailhancocks5207]

Ok we all know who Harry's father is

[@elimb6071]

He's the double of Prince Phillip!!

[@beryl-i8x]

@@gailhancocks5207not james unfortunately far far better man than charlie any day !

[@Shadowfax0113]

@@gailhancocks5207you are disgusting.

[@StevenRodenhurst]

God bless

[@gumdrop465]

❤❤

[@bogdancristea9270]

For decades I was convinced that it was a genuine accident she died in, but, having seen the concerted efforts of the Establishment in the past years to blacken her memory, to claim that she was "paranoid", that she was to blame for Charles's unhappiness etc., and having seen the ruthless attacks against Prince Harry, who seems to have followed his mother's footsteps in breaking away from his toxic family, I am beginning to think that maybe it wasn't an accident after all. I'm not saying that the members of the royal family were directly involved in a murder, but there is no denying that she had become a threat to the monarchy and to the whole system underpinned by the monarchy, just like Harry and Meghan had become before breaking away. She had begun openly to speak against the monarchy at a time when the monarchy was already increasingly unpopular, and so much was at stake that some red flags were surely raised.

[@clubredken13]

I'm disappointed in you. Already becoming a conspiracy theorist. I'm 58 and I followed it more than anybody. I can recite Earl Spencer's Eulogy. The driver from Hotel Ritz was drunk. End of story.

[@filipeqfuzzyty4]

So these are just loose assumptions and where are they leading? No conclusion so we should drop the assumptions.

[@ErikaF-e9n]

When cue cards were trending, this was upper crust in New England parlance

[@melissatucker4469]

I shared her name and legacy today with my 13 year old son. Introduced him to Elton's tribute for MM and PD. Weren't they both 36 when they passed?

[@danibsosexi]

He meant every word of this as we can see as he showed up for Harry yesterday and supported him like real, blood family do William should be ashamed of his self he's going to make a horrible king

[@chezzie3677]

What an ugly thing to say….. William has such grace and class, he will make a wonderful king!!

[@jrd3523]

@@chezzie3677 Truth is not always pretty to hear.

[@jackieporter5323]

He was settling personal scores, he felt obligated to the Royal Family and didn’t like it, if Diana hadn’t married Prince Charles thereby bringing the Spencers into,prominence, it’s very possible Althorp would have had to be sold due to crippling death duties, and a very acrimonious divorce. There is something very suspect about the Spencer’s. Johnny Spencer was a foul tempered bully who physically abused his wife. When she left him, taking her children with her he filed for divorce, but first called upon his mother in law to give a very brief false testimony about her daughters suitability as a mother, all untrue, he was granted full custody of the children and immediately shipped them off to boarding school, he made it impossible for Frances to see her children, telling them she’d abandoned them. Charles Spencer also physically abused his first wife, Victoria Lockwood, he is now onto his third divorce. His speech in the day if Diana’s funeral was a complete travesty, he hadn’t spoken to Diana in months before her death, sge had asked if she might have some accommodation at Althorp, and he flatly refused her . He spoke about caring for Diana’s sons, they would be cared for and nurtured by their “ blood family” he had very little to do with them, or with his own children he had by a multiplicity of women. He used her funeral to his own aggrandisement, he used her burial place and her possessions to make eye watering amounts of money as a public spectacle. He had zero regard for his family values or his “ blood family” his mother , who suffered from Parkinson’s disease and later brain cancer is buried in a sadly neglected plot in a little cemetery in the west of Scotland. Diana was also one for airing her imagined grievances in public, beautifully staged managed to show her sad eyes, bleating about the ills done to her whilst she was actively engaged in wreaking hurt to the women and children of the men she seduced , or claiming at least a modicum of responsibility for the suicide of the fiancée of another of her conquests , she was a 31 year old who spiralled into serious depression and later committed suicide on hearing the Squidgeygate tapes , where Diana feared she might be pregnant. And now we have Harry, displaying all the traits of the Spencer’s ….paranoia, delusions, insane jealousy and malice. If ever there was a victim in the Wales’s marriage it was certainly not Diana .

[@jrd3523]

@@jackieporter5323 "Paranoia, delusions" These two words describe you perfectly. Speculation and slander. You can go back to your corner.

[@joanarsula]

💯 an ereplaceable princess Diana

[@taryngutierrez9139]

RIP🕊️😭🕯️💔

[@tropicalwinterx0x0]

Is that 1:21 donatella Versace

[@onemomenttohislifespan]

Yes

[@CathieSeddon]

Please understand he wouldn’t help her in her hour of need😊

[@Sch586]

King Charles couldn’t marry as long as Diana was alive.

[@catherineconnolly2722]

Exactly! 👍🏻

[@Dylanbarker508]

Yes he could Charles and Diana were divorced, don’t get me wrong I’m not a Charles and Camilla fan but legally he could’ve remarried weather Diana lived or not

[@jackieporter5323]

Utter rubbish, they were divorced.

[@KarenHackman-x9z]

Prince Charles ruined DIANA by being in volved with the Rottweiler

[@roncorbin4072]

Yes that is most true. Her brother and the monarchy didn’t help her either

[@PermijitDunkley]

It's not easy to have King Charles III do the family care of Princess Diana's Children🔕

[@Robby334]

Charles was anAdulterist.

[@jackieporter5323]

What about the ten plus men she introduced into their bed…..is that different.

[@erin.v.m657]

So was Diana.

[@Ladybird22373]

She asked him for sanctuary when the paps got to her . He refused her alsop . I know his grieving here & we all miss things we could have done when we lose someone dear . But he didn’t mention this did he ?

[@yulshelest7838]

Who was that frog making the annoying face when he said “She needed no royal titles”

[@adalovelace7620]

Donatella Versace..... 🤣

[@wotan10950]

That was before Donatella died and came back as a living corpse. As they say in Italian, “quella propria brutta.”

[@LY22235.]

She was smiling because it was a dig at the royal family. She was also experiencing a tragic loss of her brother at the time.

[@dianeperrin2898]

Mon Dieu, quelle image poignante du comte Spencer effrondré après son éloge funèbre, assis seul devant la dépouille de sa soeur. J'espère que les applaudissements du public l'ont un peu réconforté, le pauvre !

[@Jdrjru48Hehrsjshsh]

Please someone listen. Please help me

[@anjuku786]

Are you alright?

[@cindytartt4048]

1:24 is that Lady Colin Campbell?

[@Henriettahistory]

No it’s Donatella Versace 💜

[@monique8641]

Lady Colin Campbell was involved in quite the scandal after she married. The divorce happened within a year of the wedding and her husband apologised to the RF and she has no contact at all with the RF. Everything she states in her interviews is just gossip. She has no first hand experience of the RF and relies upon "sources" - ie the media.

[@dianewalker4633]

I hated this eulogy. It was inappropriate at the time and it's still inappropriate today. He is such a hypocrite too, considering all the wives he has had and the horrible way he has treated them.

[@MichaelOCallaghan-j7x]

And after all that, he's now flogging " undiscovered" photographs of her and her grave. What a truly effing hypocrite.

[@singerrb4984]

Shame on you.

[@dkizxpt-su3ze]

Diane would love Kate and detest Meghan because Meghan treats Harry so badly

[@luckyboots2528]

Did she tell you that recently?

[@dkizxpt-su3ze]

@@luckyboots2528 Many royal insiders have said Meghan is abusive and cruel to poor Harry Its a unanimous opinion I'm afraid

[@Allhoney33]

@@dkizxpt-su3zeActually the other way around.... William is abusive to Kate. Look at how he treats her in public. Plus Kate's eating disorder is a tale tell sign!

[@realdeal7897]

Who knows. It's THEIR business , not ours

[@Allhoney33]

William is abusive not Meghan.

[@renskeconnell8038]

Most disgusted and disrespectful performance. Terrible!!

[@areejjafar859]

Most amazing eulogy and a slap on the RF face. those THUGs deserve hell for what they did to our Princess. THAT MISTRESS COWMILLA WILL NEVER BE QUEEN