Nearly thirty years after Princess Diana's death in Paris, her brother Earl Spencer has published a memoir that compels the Royal Family to defend itself in unusually direct terms — a measure of how incompletely the wounds of 1997 have healed. The allegations, centering on King Charles's demeanor in the immediate hours after Diana died, reopen questions about empathy, memory, and the cost of institutional self-preservation that the monarchy has spent three decades trying to answer. As the 30th anniversary of Diana's death approaches, the book reminds us that grief, when it belongs to millions,
Earl Spencer's Diana memoir reopens royal wounds nearly 30 years after her death
Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris in 1997; her young sons were required to walk behind her coffin, an experience that shaped their lives and contributed to ongoing family tensions.