Earl Spencer says media treatment of Harry and Meghan ‘echoes’ Diana’s experience

Earl Spencer, brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg. Photograph: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA

Earl Spencer has said the relationship between the press and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex “echoes” the way the media treated his sister Diana, Princess of Wales.

In an interview with the BBC to be aired on Sunday evening, Spencer described the press’s coverage of Harry and Meghan as having a “cancerous influence”, adding it would be “beholden on people to learn from Diana’s example”.