Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, is opening up about her final resting place

Appearing on Good Morning Britain to talk about the latest BBC report that cleared staff over the rehiring of Martin Bashir back in 2016, the father-of-seven was asked about her late sister’s resting place ahead of her “emotional” 60th birthday celebrations next month.

The grave site – on an island in the heart of a small lake at the family estate, Althorp – is an “oasis of calm,” Charles, the 9th Earl Spencer said early on Tuesday.

“Every landmark day, such as birthday, Mother’s Day, I always take flowers,” he told “Good Morning Britain”. “I do go a lot, and it’s an oasis of calm, and it’s a lovely place to go.”

On July 1, which would have been her 60th birthday, a much anticipated statue will be unveiled by Prince William and Prince Harry as the U.K. and the world celebrate the princess, who died nearly 24 years ago.

“I remember my father always used to talk about the day Diana was born actually, the 1st July 1961, and it was a sweltering hot day and this wonderful daughter appeared and it’s so funny to be of an age now where your slightly older sister is 60 but yes, it will be an emotional day but, you know, I think it will be a tribute to a much missed and much loved sister, mother, whatever,” he told Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid.

Diana’s sons, Princes William and Harry, will also commemorate the day by unveiling a monument of their mother, which they commissioned a few years ago, at Kensington Palace.

Spencer was a vociferous proponent of an inquiry into the circumstances that led to Diana giving an interview to the BBC’s Panorama program in 1995. The probe by a leading judge Lord Dyson found reporter Martin Bashir had used fake documents to convince Spencer into introducing him to the princess.

“I hope she’d be pleased the truth is out to the context. She was taken into a very dark place, her paranoia was fed,” he added of the investigation.

Princess Diana’s final resting place is in the grounds of Althorp Park, her family home.

Former BBC director general Lord Tony Hall spoke before a Parliamentary committee on Tuesday, saying he is “sorry for the hurt caused” to the royal family by the scandal surrounding the interview by Bashir, who will not face criminal charges.

Diana’s sons, Princes William and Harry, will also mark the day by unveiling a statue of their mother at Kensington Palace that they commissioned a few years back.

In the wake of the report in May, Prince William, 39, strongly criticized the “deceitful way the interview was obtained,” saying, “It brings indescribable sadness to know that the BBC’s failures contributed significantly to her fear, paranoia and isolation that I remember from those final years with her.”

In the early hours of 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died from the injuries she sustained in a car crash in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris. Her partner, Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the Mercedes-Benz W140, Henri Paul, were pronounced dead at the scene.

“I hope she’d be pleased the truth is out to the context. She was taken into a very dark place, her paranoia was fed,” he added of the investigation.

On Tuesday, former BBC director general Lord Tony Hall testified before a Parliamentary committee, saying he is “sorry for the hurt caused” to the royal family by the controversy surrounding Bashir’s interview, for which he will not face criminal charges.

Following the revelation in May, Prince William, 39, slammed the “deceitful way the interview was obtained,” adding, “It brings indescribable sadness to know that the BBC’s failures contributed significantly to her fear, paranoia and isolation that I remember from those final years with her.”

Diana, Princess of Wales, died in the early hours of August 31, 1997, from injuries suffered in a vehicle accident in Paris’s Pont de l’Alma tunnel. Dodi Fayed, her boyfriend, and Henri Paul, the driver of the Mercedes-Benz W140, were declared dead at the scene.