Earl Spencer's Diana Memoir Reopens Royal Rift

Earl Spencer publishes Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, recounting explosive private conversations with Prince Charles after Diana’s death, including criticisms of how the royal family handled her funeral and a claim that Charles angrily told him, “We’ll forget her soon enough.” The memoir frames the Spencer family as a counterweight to the Windsors and argues Diana deserved respect beyond royal titles, arriving as Charles’s health and renewed scrutiny of the monarchy accompany Harry and Meghan’s return to the UK.