'Swan Song': New book by Princess Diana's brother drops
- On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer, released his memoir 'Swan Song: Diana, My Sister,' alleging King Charles III behaved callously after Princess Diana's 1997 death, prompting a rare Buckingham Palace rebuttal.
- Spencer recounts a 1997 phone call where he claims the then-Prince Charles sounded "giddily elated" and remarked "we'll forget her soon enough" during a dispute over whether Princes William and Harry should walk behind their mother's coffin.
- Published by Penguin and translated into 12 languages, the memoir aims to set the record straight "as an eyewitness to history," though critics have questioned the timing and motives behind revisiting these decades-old tensions.
- Buckingham Palace stated "the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason," which Spencer dismissed as a "rather poor imitation" of the late Queen Elizabeth II's "recollections may vary" response, accusing the King of gaslighting him.
- This release arrives ahead of the 30th anniversary of Princess Diana's death in 1997, reopening long-standing wounds the royal family has sought to move past for nearly three decades.
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Princess Diana‘s brother, Charles Spencer, didn’t hold back in his new book, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister. In the controversial memoir, Spencer said King Charles told his sister he didn’t love her in the days leading up to their 1981 wedding. Spencer said that he learned from a friend of Diana’s that, the day before […]
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Memoir by Princess Diana's brother flies off the shelves
LONDON — British shoppers snapped up copies of a memoir by the brother of Princess Diana on Tuesday after their interest was piqued by incendiary allegations about her troubled marriage to the now-king, including the claim he was "giddily elated"…
In a new book dedicated to her sister, Lady Diana, Charles Spencer raises the veil on particularly painful episodes of her life. Her story goes back to a period during which the isolated Princess of Wales had let herself go to dark thoughts.
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