Overview
- On Jan. 20, Earl Spencer posted a black-and-white beach photo of his mother taken by their father, noting she was born at Park House on the Sandringham estate on Jan. 20, 1936, the day King George V died one mile away.
- He wrote that he delivered her funeral eulogy and that she endured the deaths of two of her children, Princess Diana and a newborn son, John, in 1960.
- The remembrance described how she later converted to Roman Catholicism and helped take seriously ill children on pilgrimages to Lourdes.
- Instagram commenters focused on her strong resemblance to Diana, with some also seeing echoes of her features in Princess Charlotte.
- Some coverage noted the post’s timing as Prince Harry pursues a legal case against the Daily Mail, without indicating any link between the two.