It's a (very nice) 1980s new build that Princess Diana's stepmother lived in for a bit, not [Spencer House](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_House,_Westminster)
Spencer House is on St James's Place in London. It is about 4 times the size of this house and backs onto Green Park.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_House%2C_Westminster?wprov=sfla1
Diana's brother, the 9th Earl owns it, along with Althorp in Northamptonshire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althorp?wprov=sfla1
So wealthy! I think it’s just because she was presented as the people’s princess. It’s just an idea I had in my head! I figured wealthy but not gentry…!
If I remember rightly her family had been 'friendly' (for want of a better word) with the royal family for generations! I think Kate Middleton is similar to what you're describing - very wealthy family by most standards, but not gentry.
I know, I corresponded with Raine and her then husband Earl John Spencer. I met him. I also love Dame Barbara’s books and have received Christmas cards from her family.
Totally, a “Peoples’ Princess” if you will. I always saw her down the high street on a Saturday morning, or in the pub with a pint of Carling and some pork scratchings on a Friday night. Proper Normo, that bird.
She wasn’t the peoples princess cause she was meant to be like the people. It was because of all the charity work she did, especially ones about deeply unpopular causes like leprosy and aids.
Family weren't Earl's or anything or had married into every other great family in the UK. Most notably that of Winston Churchill's. Nor have they been around since the 1400s.
She’s descended from Charles I and James I/VI, and her father, grandfather and great grandfather on the Spencer side were all earls. There’s earls going back to at least the 1600s because her ancestor earl Henry Spencer was killed at the battle of newbry. She’s pretty fucking posh
Reading back I see where I went wrong in my sleep deprived Monday morning state, but it’s hard to pick up sarcasm without tone sometimes. I’m the dummy, it happens. Hopefully people enjoy the context of how incredibly normal Diana is so I’ll just leave it as it is. Enjoy my stupidity, it’s free
Lol! Apologies if I was wrong - I am working with a 40+ year-old memory of a subject that I was never very interested in! I only came here to look at the house 🤷♀️
The next owner will probably spend a few days a month here, so no need for a garden… why need a garden in your London townhouse when you have your own private island?
I used to date a guy who lived just off Bond St and the noise from the drunks outside screeching all night was genuinely worse than living in Croydon lol.
Beautiful house, but I find it fascinating how someone might pay £10m for a terraced house. That much money and you'll never get the privacy of a detached or even semi
Yes, and I understand why it's this expensive in London. What I'm saying is despite the absurd price tag you will never have the level of privacy you get for a lot less money throughout the rest of the country
Different priorities I guess.
It's probably a decent level of insulation between the walls here though.
The last renovation will have been a spare no expense type.
I doubt you can hear much from the neighbours.
You're probably more likely to be inconvenienced by tourists knocking and asking to see inside Diana's old home.
It's a (very nice) 1980s new build that Princess Diana's stepmother lived in for a bit, not [Spencer House](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_House,_Westminster)
The step mother that Diana hated and pushed down the stairs.
"She's laughing up at us from hell"
According to your linked article, Diana never lived in that one, either.
She grew up here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althorp#/media/File:Althorp_House.jpg
Yes, I also saw the other link in the thread.
No, but it is the Spencers’ actual townhouse in London.
Nope, that’s in Berkeley Sq.
Or Grosvenor, can’t remember which
Berkeley Square is a square. Did you mean one of the houses on it?
The London Squares had/have access via a locked gate. The houses surrounding the squares had keys.
I’m not sure how that’s directly relevant, sorry.
Well I didn't want to be sarcastic and say no, not in a house, on a park bench in the middle of the square.
I really don't follow, sorry again
Spencer House is on St James's Place in London. It is about 4 times the size of this house and backs onto Green Park. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_House%2C_Westminster?wprov=sfla1 Diana's brother, the 9th Earl owns it, along with Althorp in Northamptonshire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althorp?wprov=sfla1
An even more normal property! (Beautiful though, and honestly I hadn’t quite realised Diana’s family were *that* wealthy until I saw that picture)
Her dad is an Earl. They are that wealthy and some!
So wealthy! I think it’s just because she was presented as the people’s princess. It’s just an idea I had in my head! I figured wealthy but not gentry…!
If I remember rightly her family had been 'friendly' (for want of a better word) with the royal family for generations! I think Kate Middleton is similar to what you're describing - very wealthy family by most standards, but not gentry.
It’s never been anything to do with Diana, her stepmother once lived there.
Barbara Cartland's daughter.
I know, I corresponded with Raine and her then husband Earl John Spencer. I met him. I also love Dame Barbara’s books and have received Christmas cards from her family.
Anything to make the price go up
But she was a normal person, right?
The house doesn't even have anything to do with Diana, really. Her stepmother Raine lived there for a bit, that's all.
Is this the house where Diana pushed her down the stairs?
Totally, a “Peoples’ Princess” if you will. I always saw her down the high street on a Saturday morning, or in the pub with a pint of Carling and some pork scratchings on a Friday night. Proper Normo, that bird.
She wasn’t the peoples princess cause she was meant to be like the people. It was because of all the charity work she did, especially ones about deeply unpopular causes like leprosy and aids.
r/ whooooosh
Family weren't Earl's or anything or had married into every other great family in the UK. Most notably that of Winston Churchill's. Nor have they been around since the 1400s.
She’s descended from Charles I and James I/VI, and her father, grandfather and great grandfather on the Spencer side were all earls. There’s earls going back to at least the 1600s because her ancestor earl Henry Spencer was killed at the battle of newbry. She’s pretty fucking posh
r/woosh
Reading back I see where I went wrong in my sleep deprived Monday morning state, but it’s hard to pick up sarcasm without tone sometimes. I’m the dummy, it happens. Hopefully people enjoy the context of how incredibly normal Diana is so I’ll just leave it as it is. Enjoy my stupidity, it’s free
She may have been a commoner but she wouldn’t have joined the family business without being pretty fucking posh 🙂
How much of a commoner are you when your dad is an Earl?
Lol! Apologies if I was wrong - I am working with a 40+ year-old memory of a subject that I was never very interested in! I only came here to look at the house 🤷♀️
Pretty sure being the daughter of an early puts you very firmly into 'not a commoner' territory.
There was that one time Freddie Mercury disguised her as a twink and took her to the Royal Vauxhall Tavern...
This was her family home https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althorp
I want to see the house next door.
I would want a garden for 11 million.
The next owner will probably spend a few days a month here, so no need for a garden… why need a garden in your London townhouse when you have your own private island?
I’m thinking like a peasant.
Nice place innit.
I used to date a guy who lived just off Bond St and the noise from the drunks outside screeching all night was genuinely worse than living in Croydon lol.
Wonder what's stored in the Vault?
Seems a strange location
For that much, you only get 11mb internet speeds
Beautiful house, but I find it fascinating how someone might pay £10m for a terraced house. That much money and you'll never get the privacy of a detached or even semi
That's city centre living. And in this case - in Mayfair.
Yes, and I understand why it's this expensive in London. What I'm saying is despite the absurd price tag you will never have the level of privacy you get for a lot less money throughout the rest of the country
Different priorities I guess. It's probably a decent level of insulation between the walls here though. The last renovation will have been a spare no expense type. I doubt you can hear much from the neighbours. You're probably more likely to be inconvenienced by tourists knocking and asking to see inside Diana's old home.
Sound insulation will likely be very good. If you value privacy over all else then you wouldn’t live in central London.
It’s incredibly unlikely that it will be their only home. When they are ready for the privacy they can shoot off to the 50 acres in Suffolk.
It's just around the corner from Annabel's, dahling
If you want to live in the city, you don't mind living near other people. High density makes the neighbourhoods nicer to live in.
Is ‘Built in the early 1980’s’ a typo?!
Haha, so our normal people houses all have 4 floors and a lift too then 🤣🤣 lol people’s Princess 🤣🤣
Don’t forget the staff accommodation!
Oh yes, all normal people houses have staff accommodation, didn’t you know? 🤣🤣
She really was one of us.
Better get a life size inflatable ET for the gates
Looks like a 1980s Laura Ashley catalogue.
I prefer the ones n both sides.
Nothing special apart from the location
Completely agree
Ah yes, the "normal" princess, totally "one of us" 😅