“You can be sure that we will forget her soon.” That is what then-Prince Charles allegedly told Charles Spencer over the phone, just days after Diana died in Paris in 1997, while half the world mourned her absence.
Spencer recounts it in his new book, “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister”, which comes out on September 22. The call arose from a brutal argument: whether 15-year-old William and 12-year-old Harry should walk behind their mother’s coffin at the funeral. Amid that tension, according to the earl, Charles let slip what he interprets as a long-held contempt for Diana.
It is Spencer’s harshest accusation against the king since the eulogy he delivered for his sister at Westminster Abbey. Buckingham Palace broke its usual silence to challenge Spencer’s recollection, almost 30 years later. 🖤👑