Royal family news live: Sussexes should get security as ‘unpleasant’ press treatment echoes that of Diana, says Earl Spencer

Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex , should be given official security now because the media is treating them in a similar way to Princess Diana, Earl Spencer has said.

Diana died aged 36 in a 1997 Paris car crash as photographers pursued her on motorbikes, prompting questions around the media’s responsibility in her tragic death.

Harry and Meghan have returned to live in Britain six years after they quit royal duties and moved to the US.

"From a security aspect, as an uncle who's seen his sister die in very, very preventable circumstances, I would veer towards protection," Charles Spencer told the BBC.

He said the tabloid treatment of both Diana, and Harry and Meghan, could be "really, really unpleasant", that it was "beholden on people" to learn from that experience.

It came as he struggled to hold back tears when asked how much he misses Princess Diana in a newly released TV interview.

Speaking to BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, he admitted he misses his sister “everyday,” adding: “That’s the thing with sibling loss, you never get over it.”

After a week dominating the headlines, the royal war of words was the subject of comedy show SNL UK ’s first sketch of the night on Saturday.

The sketch saw the cast bring back Princess Diana as an AI assistant for King Charles, mocking the monarch allegedly saying that she would be forgotten “soon enough” while arguing with Earl Charles Spencer over her funeral arrangements in 1997.

Spencer made the bombshell claim in an extract his upcoming memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, with Buckingham Palace responding by saying that “the pain of fraternal grief can cloud, reason, affect judgement and colour memory in ways others do not recognise”.

Sir Ed Davey has said “often families have these quarrels, and often they go back to things that may or may not have been said decades ago”, in regards to Earl Spencer’s claims about the King.

On BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, the Liberal Democrats leader was asked if he would agree with Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch’s statement that she does not want to take a side but is “always on the side of His Majesty”.

Sir Ed said: “I’m a huge fan of His Majesty and of the royal family and that’s why I don’t really want to comment on what’s going on there.

“All I would say, I think people who will know from their own family experience, often families have these quarrels, and often they go back to things that may or may not have been said decades ago and it can be very painful.