Another Spencer girl got married on this day... and HER groom was already at the heart of Buckingham Palace!

• Lady Jane Fellowes was the middle Spencer sister, four years older than Diana 
• She married Robert Fellowes on April 20, 1978 

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The 関係 between the Spencers and the 君主国 go 支援する not just 世代s but centuries. 

Even today, the family can （人命などを）奪う，主張する 降下／家系 from a number of 王室の bloodlines and over such a period, they make the Windsors look like arrivistes.

The wedding of Lady Jane Spencer, then, was bound to be an event - and it was no surprise when she, like little sister Diana, chose someone with 関係s.

True, Robert Fellowes was not 相続人 to the 王位. But he was already assistant 私的な 長官 to the late Queen - and a first cousin of Ronald Ferguson, the father of Sarah Ferguson - when he married Lady Jane at Westminster Abbey on April 20, 1978.

Lady Jane was regarded as the most academically gifted of the three Spencer girls and is said to have got a ‘hatful’ of O and A Levels at West ヒース／荒れ地 搭乗 school in Sevenoaks, Kent, where she was a prefect.

Princess Diana was a bridesmaid at their wedding and the couple went on to have three children, Laura - who is godmother to Princess Charlotte - Alexander and Eleanor.

Fellowes would soon become 私的な 長官 to the late Queen Elizabeth II, （権力などを）行使するing かなりの 影響（力） in his own 権利. 

However, rather than go to university, she decided to get married at 21

Lord Fellowes’s closeness to The Queen led to rumours of a 不和 between Lady Jane and Princess Diana as her marriage to Charles broke apart.

によれば 王室の 伝記作家 Andrew Morton, Sir Robert, as he then was, had  had 本人自身で 介入するd with Charles - with the 支援 of the Queen - putting it to him that he should give up Camilla for the good of the 君主国. 

It was a delicate 使節団, to say the least. Charles's 返答, says Morton, was an implacable 拒絶. 

Diana's former butler Paul Burrell later （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the sisters hadn't spoken 'in a number of years' before Diana died, 追加するing that the 緊張する had been put in place because of Lord Fellowes 役割 as the Queen's 長官.

However, other Palace insiders have 否定するd any difficulty, pointing out that she and Princess Diana were 隣人s in Kensington Palace. Diana lived with William and Harry in numbers eight and nine, while Lady Jane lived lived nearby in a house called the Old 兵舎.

After Princess Diana was killed in a car 衝突，墜落 in Paris on 31 August 1997, Lady Jane, along with her Lady Sarah, …を伴ってd Prince Charles to bring her 団体／死体 支援する to the UK.

Heartbreaking photos showed Lady Jane leaving the Piti?-Salp?tri?re Hospital where Diana was pronounced dead, visibly upset.

In 2017, Sarah and her brother Charles, Earl Spencer, opened up about the 悲劇 in the BBC 文書の, Diana 7 Days and explained that Lady Jane was given the 仕事 of calling them and breaking the news.

As the closest sibling to Diana, Lady Jane made sure that she 持続するd her の近くに 関係 with her grieving 甥s after her sister's death. She is said to be 特に の近くに to Harry.

にもかかわらず 井戸／弁護士席-文書d 緊張s with the Windsors, Prince Harry has remained の近くに to his mother's family, the Spencers, and in particular to Diana's sister, Lady Jane Fellowes.  

Lady Jane, the middle of the three sisters, four years older than Diana, has long been seen as a confidante and a 安定したing 影響（力） in his life. 

Harry 招待するd Lady Jane, 66, to give a reading at his wedding to Meghan Markle in 2018 and she was one of the first family members to be 招待するd to 会合，会う their 幼児 son Archie - even before Prince William. 

With 年上の sister Lady Sarah McCorquodale, 67, she was a guest at Archie's christening in the 私的な Chapel at Windsor 城 in July 2019.

In another nod to his の近くに 関係 with his mother's family, Harry gave 'stand out thanks' to Lady Jane, Sarah and their brother Earl Spencer at the end of his tell-all memoir Spare, while failing to について言及する his grandmother the late Queen, King Charles or his brother the Prince of むちの跡s.

事前の to his wedding, the Prince made sure he introduced his fianc?e Meghan to both his mother's sisters and followed up by making a point of 説 during an interview to 示す his 約束／交戦 how important both Lady Jane and Sarah were to him.

It is （疑いを）晴らす he made his feelings plain to Meghan, who said before their wedding: 'I think in 存在 able to 会合，会う his aunts, I'm able to, in some way, know a part of her (Diana) through them and of course through him. And it's - it's incredibly special.'

At the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's wedding at St George's Chapel, Windsor, in 2018 she gave a reading from the Song of Solomon in 尊敬の印 to Diana.

Two １０年間s earlier, she had spoken at the funeral of her sister Diana.  

Another 調印する of the esteem in which Harry 持つ／拘留するs his aunts （機の）カム in the 公式の／役人 告示 of Archie's birth, which 公式文書，認めるd how, と一緒に the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Lady Jane Fellowes, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Earl Spencer were 'delighted' by the news. 

Another Spencer girl got married on this day... and HER groom was already at the heart of Buckingham Palace!