Short Takes : Di’s Brother Admits Infidelity
Viscount Althorp, Princess Diana’s brother, has confessed to an extramarital affair with a 32-year-old writer and cartoonist.
Althorp said he spent two nights with Sally Ann Lasson, once in 1986 and once last year in Paris, during what he termed a bad patch in his marriage, according to Saturday’s Daily Mail.
The viscount, who works as a reporter for NBC News under the name Charles Althorp, said he decided to tell his story after learning that Lasson had sold the story to a newspaper.
The News of the World on Sunday printed five pages devoted to Lasson.
“I have caused my wife more grief than I would wish her to have in a lifetime with me, and I accept full responsibility for the folly of my actions,” Althorp said.
Althorp, 26, married Victoria Lockwood, 25, in 1989. The couple’s first child, Kitty, was born a month ago.
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