Princess Diana’s brother claims Charles said she would be forgotten ‘soon enough’ just days after her death

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The brother of the late Princess Diana , Charles Spencer, has claimed in his forthcoming memoir that King Charles told him days after her death that “we’ll forget her soon enough,” according to an extract published on Wednesday by the Daily Mail.

Spencer claimed that Charles – then Prince of Wales – launched into a “stream of anger” over the phone after he argued that his sister would not have wanted William and Harry to take part in her funeral procession.

The late Princess of Wales died in August 1997 after suffering internal injuries resulting from a high-speed car crash in Paris. Her sons, ages 15 and 12 at the time, walked in the funeral procession days later.

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Buckingham Palace has pushed back against the claims by Spencer and said that grief can cloud memories.

“While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and color memory in ways others do not recognize, even many years after such a loss,” a palace spokesperson said in a statement.

CNN has not seen the book, Swan Song , ahead of its publication and has reached out to the publisher Michael Joseph, a division of Penguin Books, for comment on the extracts. The Daily Mail obtained exclusive rights to publish excerpts as part of a series starting on Thursday, according to the paper, which has described the book as “explosive.”

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Spencer wrote about the tense phone call in his book, which publishes next week and is expected to include heavy criticism of the royal family, according to the Daily Mail.

“Prince Charles continued his stream of anger, without me interrupting. Then he stopped,” Spencer wrote. “I assumed the pause signaled an effort to bring himself under control, but then he 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.”

“‘Rest assured,’ he hissed, ‘we’ll forget her soon enough!’” Spencer wrote. “‘I can’t believe you just said that,’ I said flatly, before hanging up.”

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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据《每日邮报》周三刊登的节选显示，已故戴安娜王妃的弟弟查尔斯·斯宾塞在即将出版的回忆录中声称，查尔斯国王在戴安娜王妃去世几天后告诉他，“我们很快就会忘记她”。

斯宾塞声称，查尔斯（当时的威尔士亲王）在电话里勃然大怒，因为他认为他的妹妹不会希望威廉和哈里参加她的葬礼游行。

已故的威尔士王妃于1997年8月在巴黎遭遇高速车祸，因内伤去世。几天后，她当时分别为15岁和12岁的儿子参加了葬礼游行。

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白金汉宫驳斥了斯宾塞的说法，并表示悲痛会使记忆模糊。

“虽然我们原则上不对书籍发表评论，但陛下深知，兄弟相残的痛苦会蒙蔽理智，影响判断，并以他人无法察觉的方式扭曲记忆，即使在失去亲人多年之后也是如此，”王室发言人在一份声明中表示。

CNN尚未在《天鹅之歌》出版前看过这本书，并已联系出版商迈克尔·约瑟夫（企鹅出版社旗下）就节选内容寻求置评。《每日邮报》称，该报已获得独家节选权，将于周四开始连载，并称这本书“极具爆炸性”。

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据《每日邮报》报道，斯宾塞在他的书中描述了那通紧张的电话，该书将于下周出版，预计将对王室进行严厉的批评。

“查尔斯王子继续滔滔不绝地表达他的愤怒，我没有打断他。然后他停了下来，”斯宾塞写道。“我以为他停顿了一下是想控制自己的情绪，但随后他对着电话发泄了出来，我一直认为这是他对戴安娜积压已久的蔑视，以及他对全世界因她的去世而如此震惊的震惊。”

“‘放心吧，’他嘶嘶地说，‘我们很快就会忘记她！’”斯宾塞写道。“‘我简直不敢相信你刚才说了这种话，’我冷冷地说完就挂断了电话。”

这是一则正在更新的新闻。