Diana’s brother was shocked when King Charles said she would be forgotten soon

New Delhi: Days after Princess Diana’s death, King Charles allegedly predicted that she would be “forgotten soon enough”.

In an upcoming memoir, Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer and brother of the late Princess Diana, Princess of Wales, claims that after Diana’s death then-Prince Charles told him that “we’ll forget her soon enough.”

The allegation appears in the first public extract from Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, Spencer’s book to be released on 22 September. In the extract, he recalls a heated phone call in the days after Diana’s fatal car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997.

Spencer claims he was informed by a senior Palace aide that her sons, Princes William, then 15, and Harry, then 12, would walk alongside her coffin. He then had a phone call with Charles.

“He [Charles] unleashed down the phone what I have always taken to be his pent-up contempt for Diana, and his horror that the world was so bowled over by her death,” he wrote in the memoir. “’Rest assured,’ he hissed, ‘we’ll forget her soon enough’.”

Spencer recalled being “stunned” by the alleged remarks that it took him a few seconds to reply.

‘“I can’t believe you just said that,” I said flatly, before hanging up,’ he wrote in the memoir.

Spencer further added that Charles responded with a “stream of anger,” questioned the Spencer family’s sense of duty, and referenced his own participation in Lord Mountbatten’s funeral years earlier, when Charles was 30.