Queen 'offered to restore Diana's HRH title': brother

Earl Spencer, brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, claims that Queen Elizabeth offered to restore Princess Diana's HRH title after her death in 1997. According to Spencer, the Queen contacted him through her Private Secretary Robert Fellowes while on the royal train to Althorp, Diana's family estate in Northamptonshire.

The Queen's offer came after Diana's HRH title was removed following her divorce from Prince Charles, then known as Prince of Wales. However, Earl Spencer rejected the offer, stating it felt like a "consolation prize." In his book "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister," he writes that Diana would have been "dreadfully hurt" by the petty and vindictive decision to remove her HRH title, but he deemed the Queen's gesture as "well-meaning" but rejected it nonetheless, as Diana was already dead.