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The Earl of Cromer has criticised his daughter over comments she made about Princess Diana. Lady Venetia Baring claimed her grandmother, the Dowager Countess, “didn’t really like” the late Princess of Wales. Baring said in a recent interview that her grandmother thought Diana should “get a grip”. Her father, Evelyn Baring, the 4th Earl of Cromer, has now publicly disputed his daughter’s claims in a letter written to The Times. He said it would be very unlike his late mother, Esme Harmsworth, to speak about the Royal Family in that way. The earl said: “It would be totally alien to my mother to …

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