A new memoir from Princess Diana’s brother has the royal family back in headlines for all the wrong reasons. In“Swan Song: Diana, My Sister,”Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer, alleges that King Charles said Diana would be forgotten“soon enough”shortly after her death in 1997. Spencer describes the remark as pent-up contempt, and royal watchers have been debating it nonstop since the excerpt surfaced.
Buckingham Palace didn’t stay quiet. A spokesperson responded that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and color memory, even many years after such a loss. It’s a careful statement that pushes back on Spencer’s account without denying it outright, which is the classic Palace playbook when a book drops.
Meanwhile, the facts of the tragedy haven’t changed. Diana was 36 when she died in a car crash in Paris’s Pont de l’Alma tunnel, along with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul. Almost three decades later, her name still drives more conversation than any active royal. The story is still developing, and the book isn’t even out yet.
Whose account do you trust more, a grieving brother or the Palace? Let us know in the comments.
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