Late Princess Diana’s brother claims King Charles told him, “we’ll forget her soon enough” before funeral

September 17, 2026 / 9:56 AM EDT / CBS News

London — Nearly 30 years after Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris, her brother is making new claims about the way he says she was mistreated by Britain's royal family — even as they planned her funeral.

Buckingham Palace is suggesting he got it wrong, with his recollections clouded by grief.

"I felt it my duty to lay out the true story of Diana in one book," Charles Spencer, Diana's younger brother, told CBS News. He will outline his new claims in an exclusive interview on "CBS Sunday Morning" this weekend.

In "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister," set to be published next week, Spencer writes that he told King Charles III, who was then Prince Charles, he objected to the plan for her young sons Princes William and Harry to walk in her funeral procession.

Spencer says in his book, excerpts of which are being published by the Daily Mail tabloid in Britain, that the then Prince Charles responded to his objection by questioning his family's sense of duty, and telling him: "Rest assured, we'll forget her soon enough."

The young princes, then 12 and 15, did…

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