Nearly three decades after Princess Diana's funeral drew two billion witnesses, her brother Charles Spencer has stepped forward with a book that reopens the question of what truly unfolded behind the palace's composed exterior in September 1997. His account centers on a quiet but consequential power struggle: Prince Philip, the family's patriarch, allegedly overriding King Charles on the matter of who would walk where in the procession — a detail that, in the grammar of monarchy, speaks volumes about authority and standing. Spencer's willingness to name these disputes publicly transforms what