Earl Spencer's Diana book opens old wounds royals would rather forget
Everyone was taken by surprise by the strength of feeling, and the strength to which the Royal Family was unpopular. The palaces were deemed to have treated Diana badly," recalls royal author Valentine Low.Low was inside Westminster Abbey for Diana's funeral and vividly remembers the public response to the electrifying speech made by Earl Spencer."I heard this noise. I couldn't quite make out what it was, and then I worked out it was the crowd outside the abbey, who'd been listening on the speakers," he says.
- ▪Everyone was taken by surprise by the strength of feeling, and the strength to which the Royal Family was unpopular.
- ▪The palaces were deemed to have treated Diana badly," recalls royal author Valentine Low.Low was inside Westminster Abbey for Diana's funeral and vividly remembers the public response to the electrifying speech made by Earl Spencer."I heard
- ▪I couldn't quite make out what it was, and then I worked out it was the crowd outside the abbey, who'd been listening on the speakers," he says.
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Earl Spencer's Diana book opens old wounds royals would rather forgetImage source, Getty ImagesBySean CoughlanRoyal correspondentPublished19 September 2026, 00:05 BSTThe legacy of the shocking death of Diana, Princess of Wales, is still the rawest of wounds for the royals, as demonstrated by the no-holds-barred memoir from her brother Earl Spencer.It might be almost 30 years ago, but Buckingham Palace's unusually angry rebuttal to the book's allegations of a callous response to his ex-wife's death from the then Prince Charles shows how much this still matters.That late summer in 1997 was a moment when the Royal Family looked out of touch, lacking in empathy for Diana's loss, and at peril of losing public support, as people laid siege to the palaces with flowers.While the royals dealt with…
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