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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Earl gives his daughter the Tatler 'It girl' Lady Venetia Baring a telling off for dig at Princess Diana
The blaze of attention for Lady Venetia Baring, 25, has come at a fearful cost - earning her a ferocious dressing-down from her father, Evelyn, 4th Earl of Cromer.
'Lady Venetia Baring alleges that my late mother, the Dowager Countess of Cromer, said 'She really didn't like [Princess] Diana' and that 'Diana should get a grip',' he notes in a withering letter to The Times. The Old Etonian peer, 77, then makes it plain that it is, in his opinion, inconceivable that his mother would ever have uttered such words, noting that she 'served the late Queen for 17 years and was rewarded for her loyalty, work and affection by a CVO'. 'It would be totally alien to my mother to make a comment on a member of the Royal Family to anybody, least of all to one of her grandchildren,' concludes Lord Cromer, 'and especially to Lady Venetia Baring, my daughter, who was born after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.'
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