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“Always an amazing, and exhilarating, moment for an author to hold the first physical copy of a new book — and even more so for me with Swan Song, the most personal of the ten books I’ve written over the past three decades,” Spencer wrote on Instagram alongside photos of the book on social media. “At heart, this is a brother’s simple tribute to an extraordinary sister.”
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Charles Spencer Says He Believes His Sister Princess Diana ‘Would Have Approved of Every Word’ of His New Memoir
Charles Spencer shared an emotional first look at “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister,” calling the book his “simple tribute to an extraordinary sister”
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- Charles Spencer shared a first look at his deeply personal new memoir about his sister, Princess Diana
- Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, out Sept. 22, marks the first time Spencer has spoken “openly” and “at length” about Diana
- After recording the audiobook, Spencer said he felt he had said exactly what he “wanted and needed to say” — and believes Diana “would have approved of every word”
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Charles Spencer is opening up about what he believes his late sister, Princess Diana, would have thought of his deeply personal new memoir.
On Friday, Sept. 11, Spencer, 62, shared a first look at Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, which he has described as his most personal book yet — and revealed that completing it left him with a powerful feeling of certainty about the story he had told.
“Always an amazing, and exhilarating, moment for an author to hold the first physical copy of a new book — and even more so for me with Swan Song, the most personal of the ten books I’ve written over the past three decades,” Spencer wrote on Instagram alongside photos of the book on social media. “At heart, this is a brother’s simple tribute to an extraordinary sister.”
Spencer said that feeling became even stronger after he spent three days reading the memoir aloud for its audiobook edition.
“When I finished the recording, I thought: ‘That is exactly what I wanted and needed to say — and she would, I reckon, have approved of every word,’ ” he wrote.
The book, set for release on Sept. 22, marks the first time the 9th Earl Spencer has spoken “openly” and “at length” about Diana, according to a press release announcing Swan Song. Its publication comes just weeks after the 29th anniversary of Diana’s death following a car crash in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997.
Spencer has long been one of the most prominent defenders of his sister’s legacy. At Diana’s funeral in September 1997, he delivered an impassioned eulogy that celebrated her as the “very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty” while sharply criticizing the treatment she endured from both the press and the royal establishment. He famously called Diana “the most hunted person of the modern age.”
Speaking to PEOPLE in 2017, Spencer said he was haunted after his sister’s death by thoughts of whether he could have done more to protect her.
“I was furious, I wasn’t just angry,” he said. “[I thought] what could I have done. But you always think, God, I wish I could’ve protected her. It was just… it was devastating.”
“I always felt… intensely protective towards her,” he added.
Spencer’s protectiveness also extended to Diana’s sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, who were 15 and 12 when their mother died.
In his memoir Spare, Harry recalled his uncle’s anger upon learning that the young princes were expected to walk behind their mother’s coffin during her funeral procession.
“Per the latest plan, the coffin would be pulled through the streets on a horse-drawn carriage by the King’s Troop while Willy and I followed on foot,” Harry wrote. “It seemed a lot to ask of two young boys. Several adults were aghast. Mummy’s brother, Uncle Charles, raised hell. ‘You can’t make these boys walk behind their mother’s coffin! It’s barbaric.’ ”
With Swan Song, Spencer says he is returning to the mission that shaped that famous eulogy: telling Diana’s story as he knew it.
“The aim of this book is to tell the truth about Diana from her brother’s perspective, just as I attempted to do when speaking at her funeral,” Spencer said in the book’s press release. “As with my eulogy, I want to speak on Diana’s behalf and do so in an openly positive way.”
“This has convinced me to write down my own thoughts and memories, once and for all, rather than having the discomfort of again reading the opinions of others, many of which are based on untruths that have become accepted over time,” he said.
Ultimately, Spencer says he hopes Swan Song will not only resonate with those who remember Diana, but introduce a new generation to the sister he knew.
“I would be delighted if those too young to remember her in her heyday feel — after reading this — that they ‘get’ who she really was,” he said.
To Spencer, that means remembering Diana not simply as an icon, but as “a one-off, dynamic character, full of love, charisma and self-doubt, who gave life a hell of a go, and left the world a far better place, despite exiting the stage while still so young.”
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