"First day of school": Charles Spencer shares unseen snap of Diana
Charles Spencer has shared a previously unseen photo from his school days with his late sister Princess Diana.
The sweet photo shows a young Charles and Diana in their school uniforms standing side by side on what was their first day of primary school in 1968.
Earl Spencer, 59, captioned the photo, "My first day of school, in September 1968: my father took this photograph of me and my sister, Diana, just before he drove us to Silfield, a really lovely primary school in King's Lynn, Norfolk."
"The headmistress was Miss Jean Lowe, a warm and thoughtful lady who loved her boys and girls."
"I was there till 1972, when I headed off to the place I call - in my memoir - A Very Private School."
Three years after the photo was taken, Charles was separated from his sister to attend a boarding school, Maidwell Hall Prep School.
Throughout the Spencer children's schooling life, Diana was always "very protective" over her brother and "just wouldn't settle" in class until she knew he was okay.
Charles told HELLO! that he and Diana had a unique bond when they were growing up.
"My mother [Frances] left home when we were young – I was two or three, and Diana would have been five or six – so we were very much in it together," he said.
Diana soon fell into a caretaker role, and would look after her brother after their mother left.
"Diana looked after me because she was nearly three years older than me," Charles Spencer said.
"She said that the worst part was hearing me cry down the hall because she was terrified of the dark and couldn't come to me."
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