Princess Diana’s former chef has accused her brother Earl Spencer of “neglecting” her grave.
Darren McGrady, also known as “The Royal Chef”, took to Twitter to express his disgust at the state of the final resting place of Diana at the Spencer family’s Althorp estate.
“Sad to see Earl Spencer @AlthorpEstate has neglected Diana’s resting place,” he said in one tweet, which he accompanied with pictures of a filthy-looking lake.
In another tweet he said the tomb looked “like a tatty old shed at the bottom of the garden”.
The Express reported that Earl Spencer, 50, declined to comment but a spokesman for Althorp said: “Algae is an unsightly problem for many lakes in the summer months” and that “exceptional temperatures of this summer have made the task of keeping it entirely under control extremely difficult”.
“Princess Diana prided herself on her beautiful home when alive. Please don’t let her resting place look like this pic,” Darren McGrady wrote on Twitter with the left picture. The right picture shows Diana’s grave in 2008. Pictures: Darren McGrady and Getty Images
This picture of the final resting place of Princess Diana of Wales was taken on July 28, 2008.
Earl Spencer at the Althorp home of Princess Diana in 2008.
Princess Diana’s final resting place.
A glowing Princess Diana in 1986.
Diana in Australia in 1983.
Diana and a young Prince Harry.
Charles, Diana, William and Harry at Highgrove in 1986.
Diana in Hong Kong in 1989.
Diana and her boys on Harry’s first day of nursery school.
Diana and Charles announcing their engagement in 1981.
Charles, Diana and baby William at Kensington Palace.
The Princess of Wales at a fashion show at the Cologne Museum of Art in Cologne, Germany in November 1987.
Diana in Australia in 1983.
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Princess Diana in Alice Springs in 1983.
Diana receives gifts on her 36th birthday in 1997, shortly before her death.
The Wales family on the royal yacht.
Diana and Charles on their wedding day.
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