Charles Spencer's Diana Memoir Is Out Today: Every Bombshell Claim, From "Giddily Elated" to "Forget Her Soon Enough"

Charles Spencer’s memoir about his sister is officially on shelves, and the royal headlines are already everywhere.Swan Song: Diana, My Sisterclaims that King Charles III sounded“giddily elated”when Spencer called him about Diana’s death in 1997, and that Queen Elizabeth II’s first reaction to news of the crash was“What is she up to now?”Spencer also alleges Charles once vowed the family would“forget her soon enough.”The memoir further claims Diana told their father she couldn’t marry Charles but went through with the 1981 wedding anyway, that she contemplated suicide at Beachy Head, and that Spencer believes she lived with undiagnosed ADHD and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. Buckingham Palace pushed back, saying grief had clouded Spencer’s judgment and memory. Spencer’s answer was a BBC interview where he insisted he’s telling the truth. William and Harry have stayed quiet.

The reaction online is split the way you’d expect. Some people see a brother finally saying the things the Palace spent decades burying. Others see a grieving sibling monetizing private pain and contradicting a family that can’t fully defend itself, since two of the people named are no longer alive to respond. Throw in the fact that the memoir touches Diana’s mental health, and the debate spills well past royal-watchers into conversations about ADHD, RSD, and how often women’s symptoms got dismissed in the eighties and nineties.

Wherever you land on Spencer’s motives, the bigger pattern is clear: decades after her death, Diana still moves books, drives clicks, and splits families in public. This one is going to be argued about for weeks. So we want to know what you think: should Spencer have published these claims, or should this have stayed inside the family?