Princess Diana‘s brother, Earl Spencer, wants to remind everyone that Netflix’s The Crown is a work of fiction.

On the latest episode of Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh, the 9th Earl of Althorp admits that he feels the need to protect the memory of his sister.

“Actually, The Crown asked if they could film at Althorp and I said obviously not. The worry for me is that people see a program like that, and they forget that it is fiction,” he stresses.

“They assume, especially foreigners, I find Americans tell me they have watched The Crown as if they have taken a history lesson. Well, they haven’t.” Although it sounds harsh, it’s not meant to be. The Earl is a historian and author and has written numerous books. Not to mention, he lived this particular storyline.

“It is very hard. There is a lot of conjecture and a lot of invention, isn’t there? You can hang it on fact but the bits in between are not fact,” Spencer tells Titchmarsh.

“I feel it is my duty to stand up for her [Princess Diana] when I can. She left me for instance as guardian of her sons etc, so I feel there was a trust passed on. And we grew up together, you know if you grow up with somebody they are still that person, it doesn’t matter what happens to them later. So yeah, I feel very passionately that I have a role to honor her memory.”

We are seeing a lot of that lately from Princess Diana’s youngest brother. Charles Spencer is also the driving force behind the BBC investigation into the Panorama interview with Martin Bashir. Prince William following close behind his uncle.

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