The palace issued an unusually stern statement after Charles Spencer stated in his new memoirs that the then prince, Diana’s former husband, said a few days after her death in 1997: “Rest assured, we will forget her quickly.”
“Although we generally do not comment on books,” a palace representative said on Wednesday evening, “His Majesty understands that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud the mind, affect decisions, and color memory so that others do not recognize, even many years after such a loss.”
The book “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister” (Swan Song: Diana, My Sister) is scheduled to be released next week.
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In the book, excerpts of which are published in the Daily Mail, Ch. Spencer claims that Charles III vented his anger on him because he said that Diana would not have wanted her sons, then 15 and 12 years old Princes William and Harry, to walk in her funeral procession.
“He vented over the phone what I always considered his restrained contempt for Diana, and his horror that the world was so shocked by her death,” writes Ch. Spencer.
According to him, Charles III hissed: “Rest assured, we will forget her quickly!”
In the United Kingdom (UK), the very popular Diana died in Paris at the age of 36 when the car she was in crashed into a tunnel pillar while trying to escape paparazzi.
Her death caused immense grief in the UK, and the monarchy was accused of failing to show proper empathy.
The UK media compared the palace’s Wednesday statement to the late Queen Elizabeth II’s response in 2021 to accusations of racism in the royal family made by Harry and his wife Meghan.
