Nearly three decades after Diana's death, her brother Earl Spencer has placed a private allegation into permanent public form — claiming that the then-Prince Charles told him, in the raw days of 1997, that the princess would soon be forgotten. The Palace has responded not with evidence but with character, insisting such words were simply not in the King's nature. What unfolds now is less a dispute about a single sentence than a recurring question about who holds the authority to narrate the monarchy's inner life — and whether that authority still belongs to the Palace.