Who Are Princess Diana's Siblings? One of Her Sisters Briefly Dated Prince Charles

One of Princess Diana's older sisters says she introduced Diana to her long term husband, Prince Charles.

Mar. 14 2024, Published 9:51 a.m. ET

In the years since her tragic demise on Aug. 31, 1997, at age 36, Diana, Princess of Wales' presence nonetheless looms huge all the way through all media.

And Diana’s siblings — particularly younger brother Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer — have made positive Diana isn’t forgotten. So who are Princess Di’s siblings?

Lady Sarah McCorquodale

Lady Sarah is Diana’s oldest sibling, born in 1955. She’s been married since 1980 to Neil Edmund McCorquodale. The couple have 3 kids and seven grandchildren. She may also be the explanation Diana turned into a princess.

In a Guardian article published Feb. 25, 1981, Sarah is credited as Prince Charles’s former girlfriend and is quoted pronouncing, "I introduced them. I'm Cupid."

After Diana’s death, Sarah and her sister Jane (extra on her in a second) accompanied Prince Charles to assemble her frame from Paris. Sarah learn a poem at Diana’s funeral, and served as the president of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund from its inception in 1997 to dissolution in 2012. Esquire reported in November 2020 that she lives in Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Lady Jane Fellowes

Lade Jane, some other older sister, was once born in 1957. She’s been married to Robert Fellowes, then Queen Elizabeth II's assistant private secretary, since 1978. The couple have three children and 5 grandchildren. People reported Jane and Diana infrequently spoke following Diana and Charles’s divorce. Jane has now not publicly spoken out about her sister’s premature passing. She did give a reading on the royal wedding ceremony of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on May 19, 2018.

Charles Spencer, ninth Earl Spencer

Charles is essentially the most public sibling of Princess Diana. The more youthful brother (born May 20, 1964) has been in the public eye nearly as much as his sister. He labored as an on-air correspondent with NBC News from 1986 to 1995 and as a reporter for Granada Television from 1991 to 1993. He’s printed nine books, e-book reviews for The Guardian and The Independent on Sunday, and penned feature tales for The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Nest, The Sunday Telegraph, Vanity Fair, and Verandah.

His March 2024 e-book A Very Private School: A Memoir is an account of the then 8-year-old’s trauma of being sent away to boarding faculty.

Charles has been married thrice, to Victoria Lockwood from 1989 to 1997, Caroline Freud from 2001 to 2009, and to Karen Gordon since 2011. He has seven youngsters and one grandchild. His youngest, Lady Charlotte Diana Spencer, is named after his sister Diana.

John Spencer

Diana had an older brother, John Spencer, however he died hours after his beginning on Jan. 12, 1960. On March 8, 2022 Charles shared a touching Instagram of his brother’s tombstone and the new enhancements made to it. “Looking as it should, now… I by no means knew my older brother, John, and live One hundred miles from his grave — but, seeing it final summer season, realised critical action was once required.”

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