Why all the world’s a stage for Princess Diana’s nephew

HE HAS, to date, fathered seven children by three different wives, but Earl Spencer had eyes only for his elder son, Louis, Viscount Althorp, earlier this week.

Announcing that Louis had graduated from London’s ArtsEd drama school ‘with a First class degree’, Spencer posted this snap on social media and added: ‘A final farewell hug to his brilliant principal [Julie Spencer, no relation]. I couldn’t be prouder of him.’

Louis, 28, has coyly registered his stage name as Louis John Lyons, as I disclosed this summer.

But, as Princess Diana’s nephew and the man who will one day inherit the family’s 13,000-acre Althorp estate in Northamptonshire, he was surely born for a role in The Crown — as his own father, perhaps?