At the age of five Princess Diana would wait on the doorstep in vain for her mum to come home but she never returned, her brother has revealed.
Frances Shand Kydd walked out on her family for wallpaper heir Peter Shand Kydd after 15 years of marriage to Johnnie Spencer, the 8th Earl Spencer.
She told her young daughter she'd "come back to see her" but never returned, Diana's younger brother Charles told today’s Sunday Times.
Diana would "mother him as a baby" and make every effort to replace their absent mum, he told mourners at his sister's 1997 funeral.
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