Charles said Diana would be forgotten 'soon enough', Earl Spencer claims in book
- 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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King Charles of Great Britain made an unusual gesture on Wednesday, responding to critics from his first wife's brother, Diana, and stating through a spokesman that pain can affect reason, judgment, and memory, Reuters reports.
British King Charles has responded to an upcoming book by Charles Spencer, the brother of King Charles's first wife, Princess Diana. In his book, Spencer is critical of the British King's attitude in the days following Diana's death in 1997. Spencer claims in his book *Swan Song* that King Charles told him shortly after Diana's death: "Don't worry, we will forget her soon enough." The British tabloid Daily Mail published the excerpt earlier tod…
A new, particularly poignant account of the days following Princess Diana's death has emerged from the memoirs of her brother, Charles Spencer. In his book "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister," Earl Spencer claims that the then Prince of Wales, Charles, told him in a telephone conversation a few days after Diana's death: "Be assured, we will soon forget her." The row over Diana's funeral According to the earl's account, the telephone conversation took …
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