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Prince Charles first dated Princess Diana’s SISTER

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Updated on June 15, 2023

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After meeting in the late 1970s, Charles began a relationship with Sarah. It seemed to be taking a serious turn, to the point that the courtship was reported in the press.

Diana, then 19, said in an interview with journalist Danae Brook in 1980 that the royals chose her over her six-year-old sister because she was more “suitable” and did not “sleep around.”

Danae said in an article for the Daily Mail that Diana told her, “I don’t really know why they like me.”

“You see my sister Sarah was going out with Charles last year and she talked about it to the Press but she talked too much and they murdered her.

“I’m OK because I haven’t got a background.

Sarah Spencer had talked to the press, which did not sit well with Charles. According to reports, he told her, “you have just done something incredibly stupid.” But all turned out well in the end: he began dating Diana, with Sarah claiming to have played Cupid. She married Neil McCorquodale, of course, and Charles congratulates her in The Crown.

So, how did Charles and Diana meet in the first place?

It was Lady Sarah who introduced Charles to her younger sister at Althorp House, the Spencers’ ancestral home – and the grounds of which the late Princess Diana is now buried.

Prince Charles, who has just unveiled a fashion line with Net-a-porter, was there for a pheasant hunt at the time of the initial meeting, and Sarah confessed later in an interview with the Guardian, “I introduced them; I’m Cupid.”

However, the Netflix serial’s depiction of the introduction is much more adorable – though Diana was not dressed in a Midsummer Night’s Dream outfit in real life.

Who is Sarah Spencer?

Sarah was born Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia Spencer in 1955 and is Diana’s eldest sister; Cynthia Jane, who now retains the rank of Baroness Fellowes, is sandwiched between them. Sarah and her sisters grew up next to the royal house, with their childhood home on the Sandringham Estate and their origins dating back to several kings of England, often by illicit encounters. Sarah, like her parents, went to Kent’s West Heath boarding school.

Sarah married Neil Edmund McCorquodale in 1980, many years after her relationship with the crown prince had ended, making her Lady Sarah McCorquodale. Emily, George, and Celia are their three daughters, and they have two grandchildren.

Princess Diana Death

Lady Sarah travelled to France with Prince Charles and her other sister, Lady Jane, to retrieve Diana’s body after she died in a car accident in Paris in 1997.

Lady Sarah became the president of the Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, a charity founded in her late sister’s name to continue Diana’s charitable work. It was decommissioned in 2012.

The Palliative Care Initiative, the Refugee and Asylum Seeker Initiative, the Cluster Munitions Initiative, and the Penal Reform Initiative were among the projects that the charity concentrated on.

Over the years, it is said to have earned more than £100,000 for numerous charity causes.

According to The Telegraph, the memorial fund was then split by Princes William and Harry for their separate charitable purposes after it was closed.

Lady Sarah has maintained a strong relationship with Diana’s sons, attending both Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding as well as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s.

“Harry has always kept in close touch with the Spencers and they have all received invitations,” a source told Vanity Fair ahead of Harry’s wedding. “Harry gets on well with his aunts and uncle and they have met Meghan.”