London - Earl Spencer, sister of Diana, Princess of Wales, spoke of his hopes for Prince William in a British television interview shown last night. With what would have been Diana's 40th birthday just over a fortnight away, he recalled in the interview for Tonight with Trevor McDonald how he urged her to make her marriage work, and the controversial speech he made at her funeral.
"People do say that William looks very like his mother," he said. "They've (both) got quite a lot of their mother in them, in particular their respect for people of whatever background, and I think that's a wonderful thing really. They're not at all snobbish and I think that's certainly a trait she always had too."