Tiara was a pain for Diana, reveals earl

Published on Monday 17 May 2010 23:21

PRINCESS Diana was left with a splitting headache on her wedding day because she was not used to wearing a tiara, her brother Earl Spencer has revealed.

Despite the problem, caused by having the impressive diamond headpiece in place for a long time, she was still "relaxed and happy" in the hours following her marriage to the Prince of Wales.

Her brother was just a 16-year-old schoolboy when his elder sister became a member of the Royal Family.

But he has described how at the time he did not realise the significance of the marriage or how Diana had been transformed in the public's eyes into an international icon.

Charles Spencer, 45, returned to the grounds of St Paul's Cathedral for the first time since it staged his sister's wedding on 29 July, 1981, for an interview with an American TV show.

The earl described how he was able to spend some time with Diana after the ceremony, watched by an estimated global TV audience of 750 million.

"In the evening we all went to a sort of semi-private party and she was there and she seemed incredibly relaxed and happy and I just remember she had a cracking headache too, because she wasn't used to wearing a tiara all morning," said the aristocrat.

The tiara was a Spencer family piece, decorated with diamonds in silver settings.

Her brother said along with his memories of the day he still has a piece of his sister's wedding cake with her name on it.