Buckingham Palace is in damage-control mode after Charles Spencer’s new memoir landed on shelves Tuesday. The book,Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, includes a claim that King Charles sounded“giddily elated”just days after Princess Diana died in 1997 and said she would soon be forgotten. A source tells Us that the King is“devastated”by the book and doesn’t recognize the person Spencer is portraying.
The palace responded with a rare public statement suggesting that grief can“cloud reason”and“color memory,”which only escalated things. Spencer called the response condescending and told ABC News he was“gaslit by a king.”The back-and-forth has royal watchers everywhere dissecting every word, especially since the palace almost never comments on personal disputes.
Diana died in a Paris car crash in 1997 at just 36 years old, and clearly the emotions tied to that loss haven’t faded with time. Spencer’s memoir is now a bestseller conversation, the palace is reportedly feeling sadness and anger, and nobody seems ready to let this one go. Where do you land on this royal showdown — team Spencer or team palace?
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