Painful relationship behind Princess Diana's listed family home

The former family home of Princess Diana – where the halls were graced by the late icon herself – is on the market in one of London’s poshest postcodes.

The £10.95 million ($AU20 million) Mayfair townhouse was bought by her father as a gift for her stepmother, and Diana would regularly visit.

The Farm Street listing, managed UK agency Wetherell, includes a “historical note” for prospective buyers.

“Located in the heart of Mayfair with two prominent owners; THE COUNTESS SPENCER and THE HOBARTS,” it says.

“When The Countess Spencer owned the house, guests included her stepdaughter DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES, Count Jean-Franois Pineton de Chambrun, Mohammed Al Fayed and celebrity hairdresser Peter Constandinos.”

It was last traded 22 years ago.

Diana’s dad Earl John Spencer, who died in 1992, purchased the Georgian-style house in 1990 for his wife, Countess Raine Spencer. A socialite, she died in 2016 aged 87.

The countess earned the nickname of Acid Raine from Diana and her siblings, with whom she shared a deeply-documented, unhappy relationship.

The five-bedroom, five-level townhouse has a lift and staff quarters, with seven bathrooms, formal reception rooms, a sitting room and a dining room, all warmed by handsome marble fireplaces, in a pocket of London famous for being an expensive tile on the Monopoly board.

Harrods retail king Mohammed Al Fayed was the father of film producer Dodi, Diana’s boyfriend at the time of her death. Dodi also died in the Paris tunnel car crash that killed Diana and their driver, Henri Paul.