Nearly three decades after Princess Diana's death transfixed the world in grief, her brother Earl Spencer has placed a new and troubling claim into the historical record — that King Charles, then still a prince, suggested Diana would be forgotten 'soon enough' in the days following her 1997 Paris car crash. The palace's rare decision to publicly dispute the allegation, drawn from Spencer's forthcoming memoir, reveals how unresolved the questions surrounding Diana's memory and the monarchy's relationship to it remain. In the long human story of power, grief, and legacy, this dispute asks someth