Diana's stepbrother's body being flown home

The body of the stepbrother of Diana, Princess of Wales, was being flown to Britain from Cambodia today, a hospital official said.

Adam Shand Kydd, 49, whose father married Diana’s mother in 1969, died from an overdose of sleeping pills on Monday, said Yim Mongkul, a morgue official.

His body was found on a bed at his rented home in the capital.

Workers at Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh loaded a white wooden casket, labelled the Late Mr Adam Shand Kydd, into an ambulance to be taken to the airport for the flight.

John Mitchell, deputy head of mission at the British embassy, declined comment, saying repatriation was a private, family matter.

Diana’s mother Frances married Adam Shand Kydd’s father, Peter, in May 1969. Diana was six at the time. They separated in June 1988 and later divorced.

Shand Kydd was the author of a 1984 novel, Happy Trails.