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To Johnnie Spencer, it was unthinkable that he would leave his daughters in relative penury, especially as the ignominy of this state had been only too familiar to him until his marriage to the wealthy Frances Burke Roche, whose money kept him afloat

commentators decreed that his contempt for the throne was a Spencer tradition, in keeping with the indifference to royalty which the great Whig aristocrats had traditionally displayed.

“It’s important to speak to people on their level,” was one of Diana’s guiding mottoes. “Choose a topic that interests them