Charles Spencer is looking back on his heartbreaking eulogy for Princess Diana.

The 9th Earl Spencer, 61, appeared on the latest episode of Gyles Brandreth’s “Rosebud” podcast and revealed that he initially had a “very different” speech written for his sister’s funeral in Sept. 1997.

“I flew back [to England] – I was living in South Africa – I flew back from Cape Town overnight. [I had a] very sweet stewardess help me, because I was in bits,” Spencer recalled. 9

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“I had a big, thick address book, and I thought, ‘I want to find someone who’s going to make the speech for her.’ And I got to ‘Z’ and I hadn’t found anyone,” he explained. “[I] got off the plane in Heathrow [Airport], called my mother, I said, ‘I can’t think who’s going to give the eulogy. And I’ve got an awful fee

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