Princess Diana's former chef slams grave 'neglect'

Princess Diana's former chef Darren McGrady has slammed her brother Earl Spencer, claiming the late royal's resting place at Althorp Estate in Northamptonshire has been "neglected".

Princess Diana's former chef has slammed her brother Earl Spencer, claiming the late royal's resting place has been "neglected".

Darren McGrady took to Twitter to post several pictures of the small island at Althorp Estate in Northamptonshire, on which there is a memorial to Diana - who was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997 - and called for the vegetation surrounding the land mass to be cleared up.

In a series of posts, which showed the lake surrounding her grave covered in algae, Darren - who also cooked for Queen Elizabeth - wrote: "If I cared for Princess Diana in life as you are doing in death I would have been fired.

"Please tidy up the vegetation on the island.

"Made me so sad to see how Althorp Estate has neglected Princess Diana's resting place."

But Althorp bosses insist Earl takes his responsibility of looking after the gravesite "extremely seriously" and blamed the recent hot temperatures for the algae growing particularly quickly.

A spokesman from the Althorp Estate told MailOnline: "Algae is an unsightly problem for many lakes in the summer months.

"Althorp employs contractors to deal with what is a highly invasive and fast-growing weed on a regular basis, and the Althorp gardeners also tackle it as part of their summer programme - the exceptional temperatures of this summer have made the task of keeping it entirely under control extremely difficult."