Diana gets her own way: earl

Press, 15 June 1983, Page 6

Diana gets her own way: earl

NZPA Halifax The Princess of Wales always gets her own way, as Prince Charles is finding out, reports a Canadian newspaper. The assertion was made in an interview with the Princess’s father, Earl Spencer, on the eve of her and Charles’s arrival in Canada for an 18-day tour. It quotes the earl as saying that Prince William will be brought up close to his mother’s family, who will not be pushed out of the picture by the Royals. “Diana would not permit it to happen. She is very determined indeed and always gets her own way. I think Prince Charles is learning that now,” he says. “William will grow up very close to the Spencer family and be influenced by

them as much as by the others,” he says. The earl, who once lived on the Queen’s estate at Sandringham, Norfolk, and is a former Royal Equerry, says: “I know the Royals can seem to swallow people up when others marry in, and the other family always looks as if it has been pushed out. But that can never happen to us. We can cope with the pressures. We’ve been brought up with Royalty, and there is no question of being pushed out.”

Marriage has changed his daughter tremendously, he says.

“She is not shy any more, and she knows her own mind.”

The Royal tour begins today at Halifax, in Nova Scotia.