Addressing his sister’s coffin at Princess Diana‘s funeral in 1997, Earl Spencer declared of his nephews Princes William and Harry: ‘On behalf of your mother and sisters, I pledge that we, your blood family, will do all we can to continue the imaginative way in which you were steering these two exceptional young men so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition but can sing openly as you planned.’
Charles Spencer‘s powerful and inflammatory eulogy so moved the crowds gathered outside Westminster Abbey that their spontaneous applause was eventually followed by clapping inside the building.
Martin Neary, the
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