Earl Spencer's nightmares about Diana's funeral

Britain's Princess Diana's brother, Earl Charles Spencer, still has nightmares about her funeral.

Britain's Princess Diana's brother still has nightmares about her funeral.

Earl Charles Spencer can still remember how he walked behind his sister's coffin on the way to her funeral in 1997 - after she died in a car crash in Paris aged 36 - and the chilling day still disturbs him even now.

He told OK! magazine: "I'd had to walk behind my sisters body for half an hour and that was such a horrible thing. I still have nightmares about that. I never have dreams or nightmares about the speech I had to give, but I can hear the bridles and the hooves and all the metal work on the horses, and their hooves and the wailing of the crowd. I have never been in such a nightmarish place in my life."

The earl has maintained a close relationship with his nephews - Princes William and Harry, Diana's sons with Prince Charles - and explained he will always be a confidant to them.

He added: "My role in their life is as a figure they can trust and who won't talk."

Charles - who has four children - is also focusing on his own life, and is preparing to marry for a third time, to Canadian philanthropist Karen Gordon, this June.