Charles Spencer has revealed the first details of Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet's summer stay in the UK.
The Earl, 62, who is the uncle of Prince Harry and Prince William, finally confirmed that the Sussex family "came to stay" with him at Althorp House in Northamptonshire in July during their brief visit to the UK.
Meghan previously revealed that their family had stayed at Princess Diana's home and final resting place in a series of photographs shared on the family's Instagram account, including a sweet picture of them walking through the grounds.
The family also reunited with King Charles and Queen Camilla at Highgrove House, before later making the decision to relocate to Britain for an "extended stay".
© Instagram / @meghanSpeaking about the visit while promoting his new book, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, on Lorraine on Wednesday morning, Charles Spencer gave a rare insight into what the trip was like – but shared his own bittersweet feelings of "sadness".
He said: "Harry came to stay in the summer with his family, and that was lovely.
"Although when I look, you know, it’s so sad. I saw the two little kids running around, and the sadness of not having… Can you imagine what a great-grandmother Diana would’ve been? Spoiling them rotten."
Charles Spencer could write a "hit piece" on the royal family
Elsewhere in his TV appearance on ITV, the Earl said he would write a "hit piece on the royal family" but said he didn't mean it as a "threat".
Former tabloid editor Piers Morgan has claimed the royal family is "spitting blood" over Earl Spencer’s memoir about Diana and that he wants to "destroy" the reputation of the King.
But Charles Spencer, who famously gave a eulogy at her funeral, said: "This is about Diana. It was impossible to give the full story of Diana’s life without putting in context certain things.
© Stuart McClymont"This is not a threat at all because I’m not going to do it. If I wanted to write a hit piece on the royal family, I could do that – that’s not my job.
"My job in this book was to celebrate Diana; it’s exactly the same as with the eulogy. By doing that, other people are going to come off not as well as they might want to."
Diana's younger brother claimed in his book that the King, then the Prince of Wales, said "we’ll forget her soon enough" during an argument over whether the then Princes William and Harry should walk behind their mother’s coffin in her funeral procession.
In a strongly worded response, Buckingham Palace said the King was "mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgement and colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss".
But the Earl, who is an author and a historian, told Lorraine that each passage of the book is "totally in context".
Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet latest
On Wednesday, Princess Lilibet was pictured during her new life in the UK in a social media post shared by one of Meghan's closest friends, Kelly McKee Zajfen.
The five-year-old was seen facing away from the camera with her long fiery red hair, admiring Kelly's baby son Jack during their recent visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at their new home.
© InstagramIt came after HELLO! revealed Lilibet and her older brother, Prince Archie, had been forced to change schools after just two days.
The difficult decision was made following security concerns over getting them to and from school, due to heavy traffic putting their small team under strain.
"It’s a real shame, because they absolutely adored the school, the kids and their parents. It was perfect for them in every way, and the children really enjoyed their time there," a friend of the couple told us at the time.
