Choir films charity video at Diana's family home

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The choir was filmed in front of the Diana memorial, overlooking the island where the princess is buried

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A choir has created a music video at the family home of Diana, Princess of Wales, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her charity.

About 350 members of the Rock Choir performed Make Your Own Kind of Music at Althorp House near Northampton.

The video will raise money for the Diana Award and will be available for the public to watch at the end of next month.

It will include shots of the house and grounds, including the island where the late princess is buried.

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Earl Spencer (left) watched the filming with Caroline Redman Lusher, who founded Rock Choir, and Nigel Varndell, director of fundraising for the Diana Award

The Rock Choir was set up in 2005 by the singer Caroline Redman Lusher.

Members do not need to be able to read music and do not have to go through an audition.

There are now 33,000 members in the group's choirs across the UK, including five in Northamptonshire.

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About 350 Rock Choir singers took part in the video

They filmed their video of Cass Elliot's 1969 song Make Your Own Kind of Music in locations on the Althorp Estate including the Diana memorial next to the island where the late princess is buried.

The video marks a quarter of a century of the Diana Award, external, which was "founded on the belief that young people have the power to change the world".

Its deputy chief executive, Alex Holmes, began his voluntary work by setting up an anti-bullying campaign at his school in south Northamptonshire.

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The video includes shots of Althorp House and its grounds

The Diana Award is the only charity set up in the princess's memory after her death in a car crash in Paris in 1997.

Diana's sons William and Harry gave addresses separately at the charity's Legacy Award ceremony in March.

The fundraising music video will be released to the public on October 30 through Rock Choir's social media channels.

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