Royal Family News: Why Can’t Fans Visit Princess Diana’s Grave Anymore?

Royal Family news reveals that royal fans can no longer visit the resting place of Princess Diana. Want to find out why? Read on and we’ll fill you in on the details.

Royal Family News – Reason For The Change

Royal Family news reveals that Diana’s final resting place is at her family’s Althorp estate in Northamptonshire where she was buried in 1997. Hello! Magazine reports that, since that time, fans have continued to visit her graveside over the last 25 years to pay their respects to the late royal.

According to The List, the original plan was to have the princess buried in the Spencer family vault in Great Brighton. However, in the time leading up to the funeral, Earl Charles Spencer decided to change the location.

The story goes that he wanted Prince Charles and Prince Harry to be able to drop by Diana’s grave whenever they felt the need without concern for their privacy. Be BBC reports that, after seeing the outpouring of grief for the late princess, it was believed that the public would be crowding the grave for years to come.

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They All Planted Trees

The area where Princess Diana was laid to rest is an ornamental lake called The Oval which is located within Althorp Park’s Pleasure Garden. At the location, you’ll discover an arboretum where Diana and loved ones close to her, including her sons, had all planted trees.

The princess was buried in a black woolen long-sleeve cocktail dress made by Catherine Walker that she had purchased mere weeks before her death, via Parade Magazine. According to the Baltimore Sun, she was buried holding a rosary that was given to her by Mother Teresa.

New Site Provided A Buffer Against The ‘Insane And Ghoulish’

Diana’s younger brother Earl Charles Spencer felt protective of his sister’s legacy and privacy. “It is a point to remember that of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this — a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age,” he said at the time of her death, per Town and Country Magazine.

The year following Diana’s tragic death in that Paris tunnel, Spencer revealed some of his thinking behind the spot. He said he felt the water would “act as a buffer against the interventions of the insane and ghoulish, the thick mud presenting a further line of defense” adding that they had all agreed “that, with its beauty and tranquility, this was the place for Diana to be,” via The Sun.

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