Charles said Diana would be forgotten 'soon enough', Earl Spencer claims in book
Buckingham Palace said grief can cloud judgment after Earl Spencer alleged Charles dismissed Diana’s memory in a heated funeral dispute.
- Earl Charles Spencer's upcoming memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, alleges King Charles made disparaging comments during a phone call following Princess Diana's 1997 death. The book releases Tuesday, September 22, 2026.
- The heated exchange occurred after Spencer objected to the decision requiring Prince William and Prince Harry, then 15 and 12, to walk in their mother's funeral procession. Spencer insisted the young princes should not endure such a public ordeal.
- Spencer writes that King Charles unleashed his "pent-up contempt for Diana" during the call, allegedly hissing, "Rest assured, we'll forget her soon enough." Charles questioned the Spencer family's sense of duty.
- Buckingham Palace released a statement asserting: "While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgement and colour memory."
- Earlier on Wednesday, four copies of the Dutch language edition were stolen from a truck in the Netherlands. The memoir arrives next Tuesday, coinciding with the upcoming 30th anniversary of Diana's passing next year.
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Charles Spencer, Princess Diana's brother, maintains in his memoirs that, a few days after her death, King Charles would have told her that Diana would be forgotten "quickly." Buckingham Palace rejected the statements, and the editorial confirmed that the quoted passages in the volume are accurate.
"We will forget her soon enough," said Prince Charles after the death of his ex-wife Diana – at least her brother Charles Spencer claims. An unusual reaction comes from the royal house.
A new scandal has rocked the British royal family after Charles Spencer, brother of the late Princess Diana, made shocking revelations about the behavior of the current King Charles III. According to excerpts from his upcoming memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, the then Prince of Wales exploded in an angry phone call just days after the tragedy in Paris in 1997 and declared to his ex-wife: “Be sure we will soon forget her!” According to a publ…
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