The divide between the Spencers and the Windsors was highlighted by those who did and didn't attend Prince Harry 's Invictus Games service, an expert claimed today.
But there were no senior royals with Harry, as they instead put on a show of unity for King Charles who attended a Buckingham Palace garden party two miles away. He had accompanied the late Queen on her early foreign tours was made a Member of her personal order of chivalry, The Royal Victorian Order, but only fourth class.
And, of course, he gave Diana away, escorting her down the long aisle of St. Paul's Cathedral to plight her troth to Prince Charles, mixing up the order of his names in the process. When the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales came apart in circumstances that could not have been more acrimonious, nor more public, it was natural that the Spencers would side with Diana. But this was not without complications.
This uneasy truce existed until the terrible death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in Paris in the early hours of August 31, 1997. During the six days leading to her funeral at Westminster Abbey, a strong current of anti-royal feeling swept through the country. I was sitting ten yards away. There was nothing subtle about the Charles Spencer's attack on the Royal Family. It was direct, it was incendiary, it hit home, as I could see from the faces and demeanour of the Queen and other members of the Royal Family facing the pulpit.
When Princess Diana's coffin arrived at Althorp, for burial on the Spencer family estate in Northamptonshire, Charles Spencer whipped off the flag that covered it and replaced it with the Spencer standard. Nothing could have illustrated more clearly the gap that will always separate two famous families.
'Words have power and actions have consequences, as Prince Harry - whose criticisms of his Windsor family have been harsh, cruel and wounding - is increasingly finding out. ' Mr Cole said Johnnie had accompanied the late Queen on her early foreign tours and was made a member of her personal order of chivalry, The Royal Victorian Order.
'And, of course, he gave Diana away, escorting her down the long aisle of St. Paul's Cathedral to plight her troth to Prince Charles, mixing up the order of his names in the process.'He pointed out that Diana, who had had a 'severe case of cold feet before her wedding', would often remind Prince Charles that her royal lineage was more than equal to his own.
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