Princess Diana's family, the Spencers, tend to keep out of the limelight but who are they? What are their titles and how are they related to the royal family?
When Princess Diana married Prince Charles in 1981, she already had significant social status as a member of the Spencer family.
Unlike Meghan Markle or Kate Middleton, Diana, who was then called Lady Diana Spencer, already had a title thanks to her family's long line of royal ancestry.
The aristocratic Spencer family, of which Prime Minister Winston Churchill was a member, are one of the many noble British families whose members have gone on to become knights, kings, earls and barons.
Diana was born to her father James Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer and her mother Frances Shand Kydd.
She was married to Prince Charles and they had two children, Prince William and Prince Harry who are second and sixth in line to the throne respectively.
Unlike the royal family, The Windsors, the Spencer family tend to keep themselves out of the lime light.
So who are the other members of Diana's family? What are the Spencer family titles and what do they do?
With Diana's life being explored in series four of The Crown, we look back at her family history.
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John Spencer, Diana's Father
John Spencer, Princess Diana’s father, was known as Viscount Althorp until he was honoured with the title 8th Earl Spencer following the death of his father in 1975.
He was also a member of the House of Lords and remarried to Raine, the Countess of Dartmouth in 1976, after he divorced Diana's mother Frances.
John Spencer later passed away aged 87 on October 2016.
Frances Shand Kydd, Diana's mother
The Honourable Frances Shand Kydd was Princess Diana's mother but her birth name was Frances Ruth Roche. She was the daughter of Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy and a close friend of King George VI.
After she divorced Diana's father, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer in 1969, she remarried wallpaper fortune heir Peter Shand Kydd later that year.
Notably she spent her last few years of life doing Roman Catholic charity work.
