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I have been researching my surname (Spencer) and was led onto a website that lists the family tree of Lady Diana. It lists her siblings as being:-
Elizabeth 1955 (Cynthia) Jane Spencer 1957 John Spencer 12th Jan 1960 Diana Spencer 1st July 1961 Charles Spencer 1964
I was not aware that she had 2 brothers! The are no other details about this John Spencer ... no children or wife listed. I remember Diana saying that she was "supposed to be born a boy." Anyone clarify this?
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Princess Diana's Father was rather obsessed with having a (Male) Heir,and after two Daughters a boy came along,but died after a short while(I can only find in most sites ~born/died 1960).So when Diana came along,her Father was (of course) expecting a boy to replace the deceased John.He was so convinced it WOULD be a boy this time,that when it was not,the marriage(that was already breaking down) was rocked to its core.Even though a boy did eventually come along,by then it was orobably too late to save the marriage.
I think this why Princess Diana said she was "supposed to be a boy" I think she was made to feel(by her Father mostly) that if she HAD been a boy that the marriage would not have broken up (not true) but what a burden to start out in life with!
I think this expalins quite a lot why her marraige to Charles failed too!
John died within 10 hours of his birth on January 12, 1960
Viscount Althrop (8th Earl) and Frances Ruth Burke-Roche had five children:
Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia (March 15, 1955), who married Neil Edmund McCorquodale, a distant cousin of Raine, Countess Spencer
Cynthia Jane (February 11, 1957), who married Sir Robert Fellowes, later Baron Fellowes
John, who died within 10 hours of his birth on January 12, 1960
Diana Frances Spencer (1961-1997), first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (May 20, 1964), who married Victoria Lockwood, then Caroline Freud (the latter formerly wife of Matthew Freud)
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