Frances Shand Kydd’s brain ailment had left her significantly impaired. When speaking, her speech had become slurred, and she required a wheelchair. “She doesn’t get out much at all,” a Seil local told the Daily Mail. “We rarely see her these days, since she became worse. She would pop down to her local pub, but I haven’t seen her for ages.” Her self-imposed seclusion, however, had been apparent for some time; The Daily Mail referenced a somewhat mean joke making the rounds in Seil, that the burglar who broke into her home was “the first visitor she has had for ages.”
Meanwhile, Shand Kydd had also been targeted by mentally unstable stalkers, including a Norwegian man claiming to be Princess Diana’s father. The publication also reported that police were contacted after a disturbing note had been shoved under her front door, reading, “‘I am here. I am coming here.'” Still, she tried not to dwell on the negative, despite all the tragedy she had endured. “I think I’ve had a wonderful life,” she told the Mail, adding, “Certainly, there have been lows … I think sadness only makes you more realistic about what life is.”
Two months after that interview, on the morning of June 3, 2004 she died. According to her BBC News obituary, she had been hospitalized after falling. Her son, Earl Spencer, issued a statement through his spokesperson: “I can confirm that Lord Spencer’s mother passed away peacefully this morning after suffering from a long illness.”
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