Princess Dianas younger brother, Charles Spencer, released his memoir “Swan Song,” about the beloved royal this week revealing new details about the late royals life behind palace walls.
From claims about then-Prince Charles treatment of Diana to an American politician who reportedly courted her after her divorce, here are some of the memoirs biggest revelations.
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Spencer wrote that on the morning Diana died, then-Prince Charles sounded “giddily elated â like a lottery winner,” he remembered thinking at the time.
He wrote that Charles was “strangely matter-of-fact, given the enormity of the disaster.”
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In hindsight, Spencer wrote, he believed that Charles first reaction to her death was that it likely freed him up to “marry the woman he loved, rather than appreciating the loss of one he did not.”
He also wrote that while they were arguing over funeral arrangements, Charles told him, “Rest assured ⦠we’ll forget her soon enough!”
Spencer said he was stunned for a few seconds before responding, “I cant believe you just said that,” before hanging up.
Earlier in their conversation, Spencer wrote that Charles accused the Spencer family of having no sense of duty because Spener had objected to Princes Harry and William walking behind their mothers coffin.
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Spencer wrote that he believed the diatribe was the result of Charles “pent-up contempt for Diana, and his horror that the world was so bowled over by her death.”
After the excerpt from the book was released last week, Buckingham Palace issued a rare statement.
“While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and color memory in ways others do not recognize, even many years after such a loss,” the statement said.
Spencer wrote that after falling in love with heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan following her divorce, Diana had the “naïve yet impossible” dream of moving to South Africa â where Spencer lived at the time â with her boyfriend because England had become “intolerable” to her.
“Might they, she dared hope, move there together, and carve out a life?” he wrote.
He said she dreamed that Khan could work at a hospital in Cape Town, and they could live “happily â normally â nearby” her brother.
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