Nearly three decades after Princess Diana's death in a Paris tunnel, her brother Earl Spencer has chosen to set down his account of those grief-stricken days before time and mortality claim his own voice. At the heart of his memoir is a single sentence he says King Charles spoke in the hours after Diana died — words so jarring that Spencer hung up the phone — and a Palace that has responded not with denial but with the quieter challenge of memory itself. The dispute asks an ancient question: when grief and power collide, whose recollection of the past is permitted to stand as truth?
Earl Spencer defends Diana memoir claims about King in BBC interview
Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997, an event Earl Spencer links to vulnerabilities created by the 1995 Panorama interview deception.