Earl Spencer's book on Diana is stolen

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Copies of Earl Spencer's sensational book about Princess Diana have been stolen from a lorry – just before its exclusive serialisation in the Daily Mail.
The memoir – Swan Song: Diana, My Sister – includes revelations about Diana's deeply unhappy marriage with the then Prince of Wales.
It also describes the crisis that engulfed the Royal Family after her death in a car crash almost 30 years ago.
Last night a publishing insider said: 'Earl Spencer has kept his silence for nearly 30 years and what he has to say about the King's reaction when Diana died is utterly devastating.'
But, in an astonishing development, the Mail can reveal that a truck packed with thousands of copies of the book was broken into after it was parked overnight in a lay-by in the Netherlands earlier this week.
Just four copies, which had been wrapped in black plastic to hide their contents, were stolen in what publishing sources believe could have been an audacious plot to steal the highly anticipated book of the year before it hits the shelves.

Earl Spencer's bombshell new book is stolen: Several copies of Earl's explosive book about his sister Diana - and how King reacted to her death - are taken in raid on a Dutch lorry | Daily Mail Online

Very true, and, whatever people claim, grief and it's attendant strong emotions does cloud your judgement and impact your memories.

Shorthand for tittle tattle regarding the behaviour of King Charles 3rd who had been ordained by God to reign over us. Something that many of us plebs when we aren't doffing our caps like to read about.

Only once you work your way through The Bench surely?

Is that still available? Perhaps someone has spare copies somewhere.

This.

Harry is just the same. Release dramatic statement so everyone wants to buy your book. Facts don't appear to matter as long as the book sales are high.

They earn their income from creating drama

Yes, he needs the money. He treated his ex wife badly but thats not a problem. Harry seems like him. Diana had a string of lovers, some married the whole lot is a soap that he and previously/currently Harry make money from. The drama they create for themselves.

What ongoing hostility? Aside from Charles Spencer’s famous speech at Diana’s funeral, he has been pretty quiet and respectful towards the RF in public since, which must have been pretty hard in the circumstances? As Diana’s brother he is one of the few people who can legitimately commemorate her memory with a book.

And Diana certainly wasn’t perfect but becoming engaged at nineteen, marrying at twenty, having the heir just ten days before her twenty-first birthday, and the spare at twenty-three, and then promptly being abandoned by her husband for his long-term mistress, she definitely was a victim.

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And the only people nowadays using that tired trope about Diana being a saint are those who want to create an opportunity to say she wasn’t.

she definitely was a victim

She must be so proud that her spare son picked up that baton.

The phrase “tired trope” seems self descriptive.

I assumed it was rhyming slang…

Some of them are very Jeremy Kyle. The papers and news stories love it all. They have something to chat about. The press love whipping it up.

Yes it's been 30 years side the speech, and Charles S is still hostile to Charles R. That's ongoing hostility even if it hasn't played out in public in the intervening years. Something being understandable, and there are good reasons why they wouldn't get on, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Although I realise we have only seen clips from the book, which may have a whole different context if read in it's entirity.

Diana got married at an age that was common in her day. She had a difficult marriage, she was a difficult person, Charles was difficult, the Royal family lives in a very strange bubble, Charles had an affair, Diana had affairs, Charles was damaged by his background, so was Diana by hers. They really shouldn't have got married, they both needed a partner who could encourage them to heal and who could support them. The whole thing was a tragedy even before her death. This isn't a black and white story, however much Charles S seems to want to make it one. People are far more complex than heroes and villains. I hope though that her brother writing a book draws a line under the whole story. Let this be the final word and may she finally be allowed to rest in peace.

Thankfully H and CS give them plenty to work with.

Such an excellent and thoughtful post, and so true.
It was a very complicated situation.
There are no winners here.

Rather sad to describe people’s tragedy as juicy. I’m am certain her children will not agree.

He certainly took that on.

It must be absolutely exhausting living like that, but it is a personality type.

I don’t think a brother has any more insight into a woman’s life than you have right to paint her as a victim.

No @MrsLeonFarrell
the line ‘Charles had an affair then Diana had an affair’ is spin. This was not a ‘equal fault on both sides situation’ ( what is?)

Charles was never in that marriage from the start (‘whatever love is’).

Diana was a victim . They thought a 19 year old virgin would be easily manipulated and she was at first. She was used as a brood mare.
When she left she was smeared in the media and she has been smeared for the 30 years since her death. Even William disgracefully repeating the ‘paranoid’ lie

That deal with the media has been the Windsor go to for decades and it’s been failing for a long time .