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What we found in Earl Spencer's controversial Diana memoir
Earl Spencer talked about his memoir of Diana with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg
A slanging match doesn't usually do either side much good. Unless you're selling books, when a controversy can be extremely helpful.
Earl Spencer's book about his sister, Diana, has had six days of public accusations and counter-claims, with extensive news coverage.
So perhaps it's not surprising that even before it's officially published, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister is racing up the Amazon best-seller chart.
It's likely to be the most significant royal book since Prince Harry's startling 2023 memoir, Spare, and Andrew Lownie's 2025 book Entitled, which doomed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's reputation.
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The coverage has been driven by a simple question: should we believe Earl Spencer's claims about the King's callousness after Diana's death? Or should we believe the unusually robust denial from Buckingham Palace?
But when you read further through the book, there's a more complicated story being told.