PART III Diana had been born on the grounds of the queens immense estate at Sandringham, but when Johnnie Spencer inherited his earldom he also inherited Althorp, the Spencer family seat in Northamptonshire. So the new earl and his family relocated from Park House to this rambling...
PART II In her mid-teens, Lady Diana Spencer, youngest of the three daughters of Edward John “Johnnie” Spencer, Viscount Althorp and 8th Earl Spencer, and Frances Ruth Burke Roche, was enrolled, as older sisters Sarah and Jane had been before her, at West Heath, a boarding...
The bells tolled, the black-draped drums acknowledged and echoed the news. King George VI was dead, and a 25-year-old young woman ascended the throne of a realm that encompasses a quarter of the globe and a fourth of its inhabitants....
She was an angel in a bright red coat and she brought him down to earth. To a place where home and a family are Kirk’s idea of bliss!...
The talk of jealousy between Grace Kelly and Jackie Kennedy, according to the latest gossip, was inevitable....