Word: althorp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because he's on tour then, while guitar legend Eric Clapton, former Beatle Paul McCartney, pop singer George Michael and opera star Luciano Pavarotti have also pleaded prior engagements. Concert organizers have been criticized by the British press for setting ticket prices at $65. Those set to perform at Althorp Park, where Diana is buried, include singers Sir Cliff Richard and Chris de Burgh and the pop band...
...Spencer says he is impoverished from inheritance taxes and the cost of visitors to the family estate in Althorp. Many view his claim as an excuse not to give Lockwood a divorce settlement...
Meanwhile, Althorp is not a burden the earl can avoid. The maintenance, costing some $700,000 a year, is enormous, and revenue for the compound has come mostly from renting out portions of it for corporate entertaining. Rumor said that Spencer was thinking about building houses and, astonishingly, a superstore on the estate to add to its earning potential. "Althorp," notes Brooks-Baker, "is not a place you leave...
...keep his moving promise to involve himself in the lives of Princes William and Harry. Spencer was not always the most generous brother to Diana. In 1993 he reportedly rescinded an offer he had made to let her use the Garden House, a four-bedroom property at Althorp. She had hoped to create a cozy escape from the pressures of London. The first letter Diana sent to Earl Spencer pleading her case was returned to her unopened. A second was never answered...
Earl Spencer ultimately decided his sister's presence would bring too much commotion to Althorp. But now her legacy to him is celebrity. And the world is watching...