Princess Di's relative lays to rest longstanding burial myth
Princess Diana's relative has corrected a longstanding myth about where the late Princess of Wales is actually buried.
Countess Karen Spencer, who is married to Diana's brother Charles, responded to a fan on her Instagram account to address the claim.
Since Princess Diana's death in 1997, there have been many rumours about where she was actually laid to rest.
After a large funeral in Westminster Abbey, Diana's casket was returned to her family home for burial.
She was buried within a mausoleum on the Oval Lake, on an island in the middle of the Althorp estate, where she grew up.
Lady Diana spent her childhood and teenage years at Althorp House, a 90-room stately home located in Northamptonshire, prior to marrying the Prince of Wales in 1981.
There is no public access to the island where Diana is buried, with a seperate memorial laying elsewhere on the Althorp grounds for members of the public to pay their respects.
Since the Princess's death, she believe she is not buried at Althorp at all.
Instead, it's claimed the late Princess of Wales was laid to rest alongside her late father John, who died in 1992, in the Spencer family vault at St Mary's Church in Great Brington.
But the countess has now publicly denied such claims.
Sharing an innocent photo of the Oval Lake to Instagram, one person asked the countess about the rumour.
They said, "I saw online that she may have been buried in the family crypt with her father in a church which was used by the Spencer family".
Karen commented below, "The law in the UK is that she would have needed to be creamated [sic] in order to go in the crypt and that was not what she wanted, so that wasn't possible."
Another person added to the conversation, "Thank you for publicly addressing this longstanding myth. A statement from the family has been the missing piece in 26 years of speculation."
While another comment said, "Agreed this is the first public statement from the family. A bit bizarre it's in the Instagram comments section but at least it's now been addressed!"
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