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Earl Spencer says Charles told him Diana would be 'forgotten soon enough'

newsSep 17, 202626299

In Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, Charles Spencer alleges that days after Diana’s 1997 death the then Prince of Wales told him during a heated argument over funeral arrangements, "Rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough." The claim appears in an extract being serialised by the Daily Mail and Spencer says the remark reflected what he saw as Charles’s "pent-up contempt for Diana" and shock that the world was so moved by her death. Spencer writes he resisted having William and Harry walk in the funeral procession, but Charles rang and insisted they should, and the alleged comment came in that phone argument. Penguin Michael Joseph will publish Swan Song next Tuesday and four Dutch copies were reported stolen from a truck en route from the Dutch publisher’s printers. Buckingham Palace declined to comment on books as a principle and a palace spokesperson said "the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss." Diana died aged 36 in 1997 and would have turned 65 on 1 July this year.

Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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tinyurl.com/3urecjve I hold no brief for the aristos or the monarchy but if this is true, anyone suffering from the delusion that the King possesses empathy can be assured; he doesn't. If ever anything showed this to be true it is the Buck House statement. The Carolinian Court hasn't a fucking clue

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