As the world waits to hear more details from Earl Spencer's upcoming memoir, Swan Song, about his late sister, Princess Diana, the nobleman and his new wife, Cat Jarman, facing struggles with their animals at home.
According to Richard Eden, the Norwegian archaeologist and her husband said: "A sad goodbye" to their alpacas' - Tyra and Andora's - boyfriends, in the hopes of breeding them.
Cat revealed the machos, whom she described as "handsome boys," stayed with her and the Earl over the summer but have since returned to a stud farm in Warwickshire. "Fingers crossed for 2027 [alpaca] babies," she said.
Cat's special alpaca 'wedding present'
Cat revealed that Tyra did greet her with a special wedding present back in May, following the podcast hosts tying the knot in a surprise ceremony at Cathedral Rock in Sedona.
"What a wedding present to come back to!" Cat gushed on Facebook, revealing Tyra had given birth to "the first of our little crias", a gorgeous alpaca baby called Sedona. "She's impossibly tiny but doing really well," Cat said of her new arrival.
All the details of Earl Spencer's new book about Diana
Earl Spencer's controversial new memoir about Princess Diana's life and death hasn't even appeared on shelves but, in previews shared with the Daily Mail, there have already been a number of seriously explosive claims.
In new excerpts from Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, published on Thursday, Spencer claimed that some inside Buckingham Palace were "relieved – indeed pleased" at Diana’s death and alleged that the King sounded “giddily elated – like a lottery winner” on the morning she died.
He suggests the then-Prince Charles might have been pleased he was now "free" to marry Camilla Parker Bowles.
Recalling the moment he was told of his sister’s death, on 31 August 1997, Spencer said that Prince Charles had caught him as he crossed his upstairs landing.
"Unlike my other callers, who were stunned, barely able to articulate their condolences and offers of help, he sounded giddily elated – like a lottery winner, I remember thinking at the time," he alleged
© Tim GrahamOther details shared so far have suggested that the royal family didn't adhere to what Diana wanted played at her funeral, which Charles said was Mozart's Requiem.
The Earl also claimed that the then-Prince of Wales subjected him to a "stream of anger" after he insisted Diana would not have wanted Princes William and Harry, then aged 15 and 12, to have to walk in her funeral procession.
"He [Charles] unleashed down the phone what I have always taken to be his pent-up contempt for Diana, and his horror that the world was so bowled over by her death. 'Rest assured,' he hissed, 'we'll forget her soon enough'."
© AFP via Getty ImagesIn an unprecedented move, Buckingham Palace issued a statement on behalf of the King, responding to the allegations.
It read: "While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss."
