Earl Spencer insists King Charles said 'we'll forget her soon enough' about Diana

Nearly three decades after Princess Diana's death, her brother Earl Spencer has stepped forward to defend claims in his forthcoming memoir that King Charles made a coldly dismissive remark during a private phone call in 1997 — words Spencer says left him so stunned he hung up the phone. The dispute, now playing out publicly between Spencer and Buckingham Palace, touches something older and unresolved: how grief is remembered, who controls the story of the dead, and what was truly said in the private hours after one of the most public losses of the modern age. It is a reminder that history is n