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El cant del cigne: Diana, la meva germana
Preciosa. Estimada. Perseguida. L'extraordinària vida i mort de la Diana, explicades pel seu germà Charles. Ja disponible en prevenda.
«Quan em pregunten "Què va significar per a tu créixer al costat de la Diana?", el primer que em ve al cap és que jo no sé què és créixer sense ella».
El setembre del 1997, Charles Spencer es va adreçar, des de l'abadia de Westminster, a tot un món que l'observava i va compartir el dolor per la pèrdua de la seva germana Diana. Ara, al cap de gairebé trenta anys, Charles explica l'extraordinària història de la vida al costat d'ella i recorda la tràgica setmana en què va morir.
Quan eren nens, Charles i Diana, els més petits dels germans Spencer, eren inseparables, i d'amagat s'anomenaven entre ells Duch i Carlos. Units per una profunda relació de confiança fraternal, tots dos van córrer per la finca familiar, van superar les dificultats d'estudiar en internats, on la vida no era gens fàcil, van sobreviure a mainaderes aterridores i es van ajudar mútuament a afrontar el trasbals del divorci dels pares.
Però tot va canviar quan Diana es va casar amb el príncep de Gal·les, actualment el rei Carles III d'Anglaterra, i de la nit al dia es va convertir en una icona mundial. Charles Spencer va veure com la seva germana gran s'entregava als marginats i era feliç fent de mare dels seus estimats fills.
Tanmateix, sotmesa a una persecució salvatge quan el seu matrimoni es va enfonsar, es va quedar completament sola. El seu germà sempre li va fer costat... fins aquella dramàtica nit d'agost del 1997.
A El cant del cigne, Charles Spencer ofereix el retrat més íntim, amorós i sincer que s'ha escrit fins ara de la seva germana, la princesa Diana.
«Quan em pregunten "Què va significar per a tu créixer al costat de la Diana?", el primer que em ve al cap és que jo no sé què és créixer sense ella».
El setembre del 1997, Charles Spencer es va adreçar, des de l'abadia de Westminster, a tot un món que l'observava i va compartir el dolor per la pèrdua de la seva germana Diana. Ara, al cap de gairebé trenta anys, Charles explica l'extraordinària història de la vida al costat d'ella i recorda la tràgica setmana en què va morir.
Quan eren nens, Charles i Diana, els més petits dels germans Spencer, eren inseparables, i d'amagat s'anomenaven entre ells Duch i Carlos. Units per una profunda relació de confiança fraternal, tots dos van córrer per la finca familiar, van superar les dificultats d'estudiar en internats, on la vida no era gens fàcil, van sobreviure a mainaderes aterridores i es van ajudar mútuament a afrontar el trasbals del divorci dels pares.
Però tot va canviar quan Diana es va casar amb el príncep de Gal·les, actualment el rei Carles III d'Anglaterra, i de la nit al dia es va convertir en una icona mundial. Charles Spencer va veure com la seva germana gran s'entregava als marginats i era feliç fent de mare dels seus estimats fills.
Tanmateix, sotmesa a una persecució salvatge quan el seu matrimoni es va enfonsar, es va quedar completament sola. El seu germà sempre li va fer costat... fins aquella dramàtica nit d'agost del 1997.
A El cant del cigne, Charles Spencer ofereix el retrat més íntim, amorós i sincer que s'ha escrit fins ara de la seva germana, la princesa Diana.
376 pages, Paperback
First published September 22, 2026
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September 22, 2026
I read a lot of nonfiction; mostly history, biographies, memoirs, etc. And the problems come in as to how to rate the book. Do you judge it by the quality of the writing or by the quality of the subject and author?
Well, as you can see, I gave it 5 stars, because no matter how lousy Charles Spencer is as a person, he’s a pretty good historian and author. He also comes off as an unpleasant and priggish person but clearly one who loved and valued his older sister, Diana, long before she became Princess of Wales.
Most people reading SWAN SONG will be familiar with the ultimately sad life of Diana. Earl Spencer knows the players, both Royal and not, and whether he’s correct in his facts and opinions, he’s written a good book.
Well, as you can see, I gave it 5 stars, because no matter how lousy Charles Spencer is as a person, he’s a pretty good historian and author. He also comes off as an unpleasant and priggish person but clearly one who loved and valued his older sister, Diana, long before she became Princess of Wales.
Most people reading SWAN SONG will be familiar with the ultimately sad life of Diana. Earl Spencer knows the players, both Royal and not, and whether he’s correct in his facts and opinions, he’s written a good book.
September 22, 2026
It is difficult to dismiss Charles Spencer’s recollections in "Swan Song." A conversation that cold and emotionally charged isn't something a person easily forgets. Even King Charles III has a well-documented history of losing his temper over something as small as a misplaced pen! Furthermore, Spencer's background as a trained historian lends significant credibility to his account; it is highly probable he maintained detailed journals even decades ago. This is very clear to me - the British media is savage and controls the narrative.
This memoir truly feels like his definitive "swan song." By waiting nearly thirty years to share this perspective-and given the Spencer family's long history of avoiding the press and refusing to monetize royal ties-his motivations feel entirely authentic. I find his account believable.
This memoir truly feels like his definitive "swan song." By waiting nearly thirty years to share this perspective-and given the Spencer family's long history of avoiding the press and refusing to monetize royal ties-his motivations feel entirely authentic. I find his account believable.
September 22, 2026
This was deeply moving and far more profound than the salacious extracts which the media have latched onto may suggest. The way this book has been sensationalised ironically proves many of Spencer's points about them.
As someone who was born after Diana(it strikes me after reading this, that we so often refer to her by only her first name, suggesting how close we still feel to her)'s untimely death, I appreciated the personal insights into what sort of person she was. I feel like so much of that has been lost in the circumstances of her death and her connection to the royal family, but she was an incredible humanitarian and I certainly feel a strange sense of grief, which I have never really felt before, that the world has been deprived of her presence. She should still be here, lending her voice to numerous worthy causes in an increasingly grim world and, of course, on a more personal level, being with the family who so clearly still desperately miss her.
A very well-written memoir and a gripping read. I couldn't put it down.
As someone who was born after Diana(it strikes me after reading this, that we so often refer to her by only her first name, suggesting how close we still feel to her)'s untimely death, I appreciated the personal insights into what sort of person she was. I feel like so much of that has been lost in the circumstances of her death and her connection to the royal family, but she was an incredible humanitarian and I certainly feel a strange sense of grief, which I have never really felt before, that the world has been deprived of her presence. She should still be here, lending her voice to numerous worthy causes in an increasingly grim world and, of course, on a more personal level, being with the family who so clearly still desperately miss her.
A very well-written memoir and a gripping read. I couldn't put it down.
September 23, 2026
Spencer took his three minute eulogy of nearly thirty years ago and expounded upon it, in the end profiting and further exploiting the sister and nephews he swore to protect.
September 23, 2026
As a massive fan of Diana ( prob read about 40 books about her life over the years ) there was no way I wasn’t going to read it…with some reservations, these reservations being partly proven right with the Piers Morgan rebuttal of ‘facts’ and the authors apology
That aside it is heartfelt and you are left with no doubt he loved Diana, the road to this love may not have always been clear but it was there and steadfast
Of course the day of Diana’s death is covered and like everyone took me back to that day and the complete shock and silence in our local ‘Safeway’ as people were too stunned to say anything and didnt know how to react to the unbelievable, never experienced anything since like it
Fascinating to read ( again ) of the family history and how Diana’s life evolved and very poignant to see how he wrote his eulogy and a very funny story how he managed to stop the ‘men in suits’ hearing it in rehearsals, also of his interactions with the then Prince Charles and of course his nephews Prince William and Harry
The day of Diana’s funeral is very emotive as he explains minute by minute how the day went, I didn’t realise the march behind the coffin was 2 miles long,it doesn’t seem 30 years since we all watched it
As say he obviously loved his Sister and it’s apparent throughout
No review will change anyones mind on the validity of this book or whether ES should have written it and what his motives were, monetary or otherwise, I tend to side with good motives but don’t judge anyone else’s opinions on the book or the author
Personally had to read it and so have!
That aside it is heartfelt and you are left with no doubt he loved Diana, the road to this love may not have always been clear but it was there and steadfast
Of course the day of Diana’s death is covered and like everyone took me back to that day and the complete shock and silence in our local ‘Safeway’ as people were too stunned to say anything and didnt know how to react to the unbelievable, never experienced anything since like it
Fascinating to read ( again ) of the family history and how Diana’s life evolved and very poignant to see how he wrote his eulogy and a very funny story how he managed to stop the ‘men in suits’ hearing it in rehearsals, also of his interactions with the then Prince Charles and of course his nephews Prince William and Harry
The day of Diana’s funeral is very emotive as he explains minute by minute how the day went, I didn’t realise the march behind the coffin was 2 miles long,it doesn’t seem 30 years since we all watched it
As say he obviously loved his Sister and it’s apparent throughout
No review will change anyones mind on the validity of this book or whether ES should have written it and what his motives were, monetary or otherwise, I tend to side with good motives but don’t judge anyone else’s opinions on the book or the author
Personally had to read it and so have!
October 30, 2026
Princess Diana of Wales
This book has all the raw details of her life, recounted by her brother. From childhood-teenage-to bride, and lastly, after the unfortunate accident where multiple people lost their lives. How it felt watching the world react to his sister’s death, up until her funeral. Every single interaction is recorded in this book. There are no filters. Secrets exposed. A certain person mocked (he deserves it).
It’s very saddening to know she passed away without getting the one thing she wanted most in the world, love.
This book has all the raw details of her life, recounted by her brother. From childhood-teenage-to bride, and lastly, after the unfortunate accident where multiple people lost their lives. How it felt watching the world react to his sister’s death, up until her funeral. Every single interaction is recorded in this book. There are no filters. Secrets exposed. A certain person mocked (he deserves it).
It’s very saddening to know she passed away without getting the one thing she wanted most in the world, love.
September 25, 2026
This is not the type of book I usually read however my curiosity got the better of me.
It felt more of a swan story for Charles Spencer rather than a lovely tribute to his sister. He appears to have pent up anger and expresses it well and truly in this book, which reminds me of the saying 'people in glass houses'. All rather hypocritical when he has had 4 wives and children that refuse to speak to him.
I gave this book 1 star for information that was' he said she said' throughout the book. Memories that cannot be fact checked, and using sensationalism to make money. His thoughtlessness regarding his nephews feelings especially William who is trying to navigate his path into leading the monarchy into this century. Of which he and his family are doing a fantastic job. I'm pretty sure William could have done without this car crash.
I am not a staunch royalist but I loved Diana and remember her for her kindness to others. It's such a shame the focus was elsewhere.
I hope one day that his 3 ex wives and 7 children collaborate to write a book about him. Now that would be an interesting read.
It felt more of a swan story for Charles Spencer rather than a lovely tribute to his sister. He appears to have pent up anger and expresses it well and truly in this book, which reminds me of the saying 'people in glass houses'. All rather hypocritical when he has had 4 wives and children that refuse to speak to him.
I gave this book 1 star for information that was' he said she said' throughout the book. Memories that cannot be fact checked, and using sensationalism to make money. His thoughtlessness regarding his nephews feelings especially William who is trying to navigate his path into leading the monarchy into this century. Of which he and his family are doing a fantastic job. I'm pretty sure William could have done without this car crash.
I am not a staunch royalist but I loved Diana and remember her for her kindness to others. It's such a shame the focus was elsewhere.
I hope one day that his 3 ex wives and 7 children collaborate to write a book about him. Now that would be an interesting read.
September 22, 2026
This is a piece of garbage set out to damage everyone involved.
September 28, 2026
Nunca me senti particularmente fascinada pela família real britânica, ao contrário da minha mãe. No entanto, tenho um interesse genuíno por figuras históricas como as mulheres de Henrique VIII, as intrigas do casamento da Rainha Vitória e o reinado de Elizabeth I, etc.
Mas a verdade é que tudo o que acontece hoje será história um dia, certo? Então, por que não mergulhar nestas polémicas e aprender mais sobre elas?
Confesso que sempre senti uma grande hipocrisia em torno da família real. Foi essa sensação que me levou a devorar o livro do Príncipe Harry há alguns anos. Independentemente da opinião sobre a sua esposa, sempre o considerei injustiçado. Este livro, juntamente com as recentes declarações da casa real ao seu lançamento, reforçam a minha convicção.
“O Canto de Cisne”, de Charles Spencer, irmão da Lady Di, é um livro bem escrito, independentemente do seu conteúdo. Embora sinta apenas uma ligeira curiosidade pelos meandros desta família, devo admitir que devorei o livro quase todo num dia. O mérito é do autor, claro.
Apreciei também o facto de o livro se focar claramente na perspetiva do autor sobre os acontecimentos que o rodeavam. Spencer nunca afirma que a sua versão dos factos seja a única verdade, mas sim a sua perspetiva pessoal. Ele não fala pela irmã nem pelos sobrinhos.
Não esperem um livro que retrate a vida da princesa. Embora conheçamos alguns detalhes da sua infância, adolescência e casamento, o foco principal do livro é o luto do seu irmão. Neste sentido, o livro oferece uma perspetiva refrescante. Embora forneça alguma informação sobre a vida pessoal da Diana, como mencionei, centra-se principalmente nas experiências do seu irmão ao longo da sua vida.
E bem, alguns destes testemunhos podem deixar o leitor de boca aberta, mas não me surpreenderam. Na verdade, como referi anteriormente, apenas reforçaram algumas das ilações apresentadas no livro do filho. A indiferença do Rei Carlos, a necessidade de proteger a todo o custo uma família repleta de escândalos e, claro, o ataque implacável que a Lady Di sofreu por parte dos paparazzi e jornalistas, são temas centrais ao longo da obra. Mais do que a família real, o principal fantasma e alvo de crítica aqui é a perseguição tóxica e abusiva a que a Lady Di foi submetida.
Apreciei imenso o livro.
Mas a verdade é que tudo o que acontece hoje será história um dia, certo? Então, por que não mergulhar nestas polémicas e aprender mais sobre elas?
Confesso que sempre senti uma grande hipocrisia em torno da família real. Foi essa sensação que me levou a devorar o livro do Príncipe Harry há alguns anos. Independentemente da opinião sobre a sua esposa, sempre o considerei injustiçado. Este livro, juntamente com as recentes declarações da casa real ao seu lançamento, reforçam a minha convicção.
“O Canto de Cisne”, de Charles Spencer, irmão da Lady Di, é um livro bem escrito, independentemente do seu conteúdo. Embora sinta apenas uma ligeira curiosidade pelos meandros desta família, devo admitir que devorei o livro quase todo num dia. O mérito é do autor, claro.
Apreciei também o facto de o livro se focar claramente na perspetiva do autor sobre os acontecimentos que o rodeavam. Spencer nunca afirma que a sua versão dos factos seja a única verdade, mas sim a sua perspetiva pessoal. Ele não fala pela irmã nem pelos sobrinhos.
Não esperem um livro que retrate a vida da princesa. Embora conheçamos alguns detalhes da sua infância, adolescência e casamento, o foco principal do livro é o luto do seu irmão. Neste sentido, o livro oferece uma perspetiva refrescante. Embora forneça alguma informação sobre a vida pessoal da Diana, como mencionei, centra-se principalmente nas experiências do seu irmão ao longo da sua vida.
E bem, alguns destes testemunhos podem deixar o leitor de boca aberta, mas não me surpreenderam. Na verdade, como referi anteriormente, apenas reforçaram algumas das ilações apresentadas no livro do filho. A indiferença do Rei Carlos, a necessidade de proteger a todo o custo uma família repleta de escândalos e, claro, o ataque implacável que a Lady Di sofreu por parte dos paparazzi e jornalistas, são temas centrais ao longo da obra. Mais do que a família real, o principal fantasma e alvo de crítica aqui é a perseguição tóxica e abusiva a que a Lady Di foi submetida.
Apreciei imenso o livro.
October 6, 2026
For me, the most interesting section of the book was where Princess Diana's brother Charles, the Earl Spencer, described in great detail his thought processes in deciding where to lay Diana to eternal rest. Fascinating.
He also goes in depth about his process writing the eulogy for Diana, as he was representing the Spencer family. There were a lot of little stories of growing up together with his older sister Diana in Park House on the Royal Family's Sandringham estate, as well as other shared sibling experiences throughout life together. Earl Spencer certainly wasn't shy about sharing some unpleasant verbal interactions with the former Prince Charles, not afraid to cast shade on the present King. I saw an interview recently where Charles Spencer said he didn't need the money generated from writing this book.
October 27, 2026
Diana...the "people's princess."
I listened to this by Audiobook and it was well done. Her brother, the author, was the narrator and made the story more authentic. It was interesting to hear of her up brining and difficulties in school. This many years later this suspect that Diana had ADHD, and if it had been treated, it would of made situations more tenable for her. Her brother is honest about many things, including Charles and the press. He continues to be an advocate for his nephews, William and Harry.
It is hard to believe that next year, 2027, will mark the 30th anniversary of her death. Many of the causes and charities that she was a champion for, still remain active and well funded from her memorial fund.
An easy listen and the last chapter is his eulogy that he read at her funeral. Perfect ending.
I listened to this by Audiobook and it was well done. Her brother, the author, was the narrator and made the story more authentic. It was interesting to hear of her up brining and difficulties in school. This many years later this suspect that Diana had ADHD, and if it had been treated, it would of made situations more tenable for her. Her brother is honest about many things, including Charles and the press. He continues to be an advocate for his nephews, William and Harry.
It is hard to believe that next year, 2027, will mark the 30th anniversary of her death. Many of the causes and charities that she was a champion for, still remain active and well funded from her memorial fund.
An easy listen and the last chapter is his eulogy that he read at her funeral. Perfect ending.
September 23, 2026
This book is completely pointless. Just another pathetic attempt to cash in.
October 8, 2026
If you're a fan of Diana, I would say this book is worth the read. Lots of details on Diana's childhood and her family's genealogy. Charles Spencer does a great job of giving readers a glimpse into what it was like growing up in one of the most prominent aristocratic families in England. I thought he did a fantastic job as well of showing readers his POV of what was going on behind the scenes in the lead up to the funeral and his infamous speech. I do side eye him a bit for saying he didn't know his speech would cause such a stir. He clearly knew that's why he hid it from everyone until the last second. I think he should own it instead of feigning naivety but other that the only thing that rubbed me the wrong way was his attempt to sort of rewrite Diana's claims that her childhood was an unhappy one and their father being abusive at times towards their mother. I thought it was a bit distasteful since she is not here to respond to that claim. While he does acknowledge that siblings can have different experiences I still sensed he was trying to rewrite the narrative of Diana's recollection of her childhood and their parents' marriage to his audience. I even felt he was trying to discredit Andrew Morton's book which I thought was odd since it is Diana in her own words and she clearly approved of its contents.
Overall though while I enjoyed these glimpses into Diana's early years if you are hoping to get some new information into Diana's marriage with the now King Charles and her life in those later years don't expect too much as it is pretty evident that they were not close enough to confide in each other. One thing that did make me chuckle was Charles spencer's clear distain for the monarchy and the institution as whole when one might argue he himself is a part of and continues to actively benefit from the same privileged class system as the monarchy. While I get his bitterness towards his sister's former royal in-laws, I also sensed some jealousy there towards the monarchy.
Overall though while I enjoyed these glimpses into Diana's early years if you are hoping to get some new information into Diana's marriage with the now King Charles and her life in those later years don't expect too much as it is pretty evident that they were not close enough to confide in each other. One thing that did make me chuckle was Charles spencer's clear distain for the monarchy and the institution as whole when one might argue he himself is a part of and continues to actively benefit from the same privileged class system as the monarchy. While I get his bitterness towards his sister's former royal in-laws, I also sensed some jealousy there towards the monarchy.
September 23, 2026
I remember waking up the day after my graduation party and putting on the radio. They said that Diana had died in a car crash. I rushed up the stairs to the kitchen, where my parents greeted the news with "that can't be right". I switched on BBC news. It was true.
I was too young too far away to have any memory of Diana's fairytale wedding. I was old enough to follow the deterioration of her marriage, the multitude of press escalated scandals, and the infamous interview where she said that "well, there were three of us in that marriage". For a decade I was fed pictures, books and magazine covers and articles of Diana. Then she was just gone.
I read Charles Spencer's autobiography about his boarding school days quite recently, and I was surprised at how well he wrote. Thus, as soon as I saw that he had a book coming out about his sister, the former Princess of Wales, and the mother of the future king, I pre-ordered it immediately.
The book starts with Diana's demise. One timeline continues from here until the funeral. The other timeline has Spencer's reflections on their childhood together, and her marrying into the monarchy. It is deeply personal, sad and reflective. There is a good dash of press and royalty bashing which is mostly very funny. I can well understand how the British monarchy has already had a formal statement on the book.
Charles Spencer's motivation for the book is to leave a truer record for posterity about a woman who was not, according to what her ex husband hissed at his brother in law, "forgotten soon enough". The author has done Diana a great justice, showing her complexity and humanity.
I was too young too far away to have any memory of Diana's fairytale wedding. I was old enough to follow the deterioration of her marriage, the multitude of press escalated scandals, and the infamous interview where she said that "well, there were three of us in that marriage". For a decade I was fed pictures, books and magazine covers and articles of Diana. Then she was just gone.
I read Charles Spencer's autobiography about his boarding school days quite recently, and I was surprised at how well he wrote. Thus, as soon as I saw that he had a book coming out about his sister, the former Princess of Wales, and the mother of the future king, I pre-ordered it immediately.
The book starts with Diana's demise. One timeline continues from here until the funeral. The other timeline has Spencer's reflections on their childhood together, and her marrying into the monarchy. It is deeply personal, sad and reflective. There is a good dash of press and royalty bashing which is mostly very funny. I can well understand how the British monarchy has already had a formal statement on the book.
Charles Spencer's motivation for the book is to leave a truer record for posterity about a woman who was not, according to what her ex husband hissed at his brother in law, "forgotten soon enough". The author has done Diana a great justice, showing her complexity and humanity.
September 25, 2026
Me, me, me
I thought this was a book about Diana the peoples princess but it turns into a book about her brother. It did not tell me about anything new. So disappointed.
I thought this was a book about Diana the peoples princess but it turns into a book about her brother. It did not tell me about anything new. So disappointed.
September 26, 2026
This is easily 4.5⭐
Charles Spencer's book is from the heart. His truth without bias. One for the history books. Recommend.
Charles Spencer's book is from the heart. His truth without bias. One for the history books. Recommend.
September 28, 2026
I don’t wanna hear from another man on her behalf, they have done ENOUGH!!!!! This was extremely self serving imo.
September 22, 2026
Charles Spencer has written a glowing and moving paean to his sister, Diana, who though beautiful, famous, empathetic and a loving mother didn’t achieve a life of happiness which you would think would have happened. She was a princess after all (when twelve I remember thinking that’s what I wanted to be only to be told by my older sister I would have been a peasant - I think my sister was onto something).
I am among those who were very distraught the day Diana died. Like many who at times live vicariously (I still hadn’t reconciled myself to being a peasant) I admired her verve, her beauty and more importantly her empathetic efforts on behalf of others, remembering her hospital visits, being touched by her visit with Mother Teresa among other causes she championed. Spencer does evoke this sense and documents his great love for his older sister that has endured through time but more especially after their parents divorced. This appears to have been the seminal event in these two siblings’ lives that has driven their desire to be loved (Spencer certainly has had a checkered love life which he does allude to). So while the world loved her, its pursuit to know her was cruel at times.
Spencer shares childhood memories which though they lived very cozily seemed pretty normal though frugal. The entrance into the royal family changed that lifestyle and also brought with it rigid rules, press scrutiny and a loveless marriage. He portrays Diana as very much in love with Charles but from the small tidbits in the book Charles doesn’t come off well. Spencer also says he suffers from (as he maintains Diana did as well) rejection sensitive dysphoria - this occurs when a person is deliberately or accidentally rejected from social interactions or relationships which is explored a bit in the book - though since I know little about this condition I can only acknowledge that the excessive scrutiny end criticism by the British press might have given me its symptoms.
I really know nothing about the author beyond that he is Diana’s brother. So I found a review in The Guardian with the following: “For fans of petty grievances . . . the book is an absolute corker of resentment. . . and in Spencer we have a hero, who, decades after the fact, is still harping about [them].” Spencer has a great cast of characters to dump on. The worst to me was the perfidious Martin Bashar, though their evil stepmother, Raine, elicited the need for more details. But Spencer is also a bit self-pitying - such as those references to that social condition, why he had to refuse to let Diana and her sons live at Althorpe, his agonizing efforts of writing his eulogy. A lot of the book seems to be more about him than her.
I listened to the book read by the author. I thought that it was well done. British royal geeks and lovers of Diana will undoubtedly want to read it. I concluded after listening to the book that being a peasant may be a whole lot better than being a princess.
I am among those who were very distraught the day Diana died. Like many who at times live vicariously (I still hadn’t reconciled myself to being a peasant) I admired her verve, her beauty and more importantly her empathetic efforts on behalf of others, remembering her hospital visits, being touched by her visit with Mother Teresa among other causes she championed. Spencer does evoke this sense and documents his great love for his older sister that has endured through time but more especially after their parents divorced. This appears to have been the seminal event in these two siblings’ lives that has driven their desire to be loved (Spencer certainly has had a checkered love life which he does allude to). So while the world loved her, its pursuit to know her was cruel at times.
Spencer shares childhood memories which though they lived very cozily seemed pretty normal though frugal. The entrance into the royal family changed that lifestyle and also brought with it rigid rules, press scrutiny and a loveless marriage. He portrays Diana as very much in love with Charles but from the small tidbits in the book Charles doesn’t come off well. Spencer also says he suffers from (as he maintains Diana did as well) rejection sensitive dysphoria - this occurs when a person is deliberately or accidentally rejected from social interactions or relationships which is explored a bit in the book - though since I know little about this condition I can only acknowledge that the excessive scrutiny end criticism by the British press might have given me its symptoms.
I really know nothing about the author beyond that he is Diana’s brother. So I found a review in The Guardian with the following: “For fans of petty grievances . . . the book is an absolute corker of resentment. . . and in Spencer we have a hero, who, decades after the fact, is still harping about [them].” Spencer has a great cast of characters to dump on. The worst to me was the perfidious Martin Bashar, though their evil stepmother, Raine, elicited the need for more details. But Spencer is also a bit self-pitying - such as those references to that social condition, why he had to refuse to let Diana and her sons live at Althorpe, his agonizing efforts of writing his eulogy. A lot of the book seems to be more about him than her.
I listened to the book read by the author. I thought that it was well done. British royal geeks and lovers of Diana will undoubtedly want to read it. I concluded after listening to the book that being a peasant may be a whole lot better than being a princess.
September 26, 2026
I am very glad that Charles Spencer decided to write a book about his sister Diana. He has written the whole book about a few days in 1997 after he learned about Diana’s death. To prepare a laudation for Diana the author recalls many events from the past. There are many priceless memories of Diana, known only by her brother, so it was wonderful to read about them.
Lord Spencer wrote “Swan’s Song” from two perspectives, that of a brother, who loved his sister very much and that of a historian. Because he is a historian at heart, he didn’t shy away from writing the truth even if it was harmful for others or for Diana’s memory. Many people will not be happy with this book, but I believe that the author needed to write the truth, as a witness to the events that unfolded before his eyes. As a historian it was his duty, much more important than the obligation to be polite and keep quiet about what really happened.
It was impossible for me to read this book without crying. I was a young teenager when Diana died and at that time I didn’t know a lot about her. Of course, I recognised her face, was impressed by her beauty and style, knew that she was involved in helping people around the world. I also knew about her divorce from Charles and that she had two young sons. I was sad when I learned that she died in a car accident, but it was years later that I understood the impact she had on the general public.
After finishing “Swan Song” I would like to tell the author, Lord Spencer: “My Lord, You had done what You could for Your sister and no loving brother could do more. You couldn’t protect her from what happened. Thank You for writing this book in her memory. You can be certain that Diana won’t be forgotten.”
I can’t recommend this book enough.
Lord Spencer wrote “Swan’s Song” from two perspectives, that of a brother, who loved his sister very much and that of a historian. Because he is a historian at heart, he didn’t shy away from writing the truth even if it was harmful for others or for Diana’s memory. Many people will not be happy with this book, but I believe that the author needed to write the truth, as a witness to the events that unfolded before his eyes. As a historian it was his duty, much more important than the obligation to be polite and keep quiet about what really happened.
It was impossible for me to read this book without crying. I was a young teenager when Diana died and at that time I didn’t know a lot about her. Of course, I recognised her face, was impressed by her beauty and style, knew that she was involved in helping people around the world. I also knew about her divorce from Charles and that she had two young sons. I was sad when I learned that she died in a car accident, but it was years later that I understood the impact she had on the general public.
After finishing “Swan Song” I would like to tell the author, Lord Spencer: “My Lord, You had done what You could for Your sister and no loving brother could do more. You couldn’t protect her from what happened. Thank You for writing this book in her memory. You can be certain that Diana won’t be forgotten.”
I can’t recommend this book enough.
October 21, 2026
One of the things I appreciated most about this book was the opportunity to see a different side of Princess Diana; not the royal, the fashion icon, or the woman the world thought it knew, but Diana as her brother knew her growing up.
She was such a dynamic and deeply compassionate person, someone who genuinely cared about making others feel seen, valued, and, perhaps most importantly, human. And yet, behind so much of that compassion was a woman quietly struggling with her own pain. That contrast has always been one of the most fascinating and heartbreaking parts of her story to me.
I’ve seen some criticism that this book is essentially an extension of Charles Spencer’s eulogy for his sister, and I don’t necessarily disagree. But I also don’t see that as a negative. This is a brother remembering his sister, and naturally, those memories come with love, grief, and a certain amount of bias. I wouldn’t expect anything less from a book written from such a personal perspective.
Is it an entirely objective portrait of Diana? Of course not. But I don’t think it needs to be to offer something worthwhile.
Ultimately, this was a three-star read for me. While I didn’t find it exceptional overall, I appreciated the more intimate perspective and the reminder that behind one of the most recognizable women in the world was a complicated, compassionate human being who wanted to be understood just as much as she wanted others to feel understood.
She was such a dynamic and deeply compassionate person, someone who genuinely cared about making others feel seen, valued, and, perhaps most importantly, human. And yet, behind so much of that compassion was a woman quietly struggling with her own pain. That contrast has always been one of the most fascinating and heartbreaking parts of her story to me.
I’ve seen some criticism that this book is essentially an extension of Charles Spencer’s eulogy for his sister, and I don’t necessarily disagree. But I also don’t see that as a negative. This is a brother remembering his sister, and naturally, those memories come with love, grief, and a certain amount of bias. I wouldn’t expect anything less from a book written from such a personal perspective.
Is it an entirely objective portrait of Diana? Of course not. But I don’t think it needs to be to offer something worthwhile.
Ultimately, this was a three-star read for me. While I didn’t find it exceptional overall, I appreciated the more intimate perspective and the reminder that behind one of the most recognizable women in the world was a complicated, compassionate human being who wanted to be understood just as much as she wanted others to feel understood.
September 22, 2026
Very insightful look into Diana’s early years and the days after the tragedy of her death. The press were utterly reprehensible to Diana - and Spencer himself - sadly there are clear echoes in the treatment of Diana’s younger son and daughter-in-law playing out today, a constant stream of vicious articles appearing on a daily basis. The abuse seems perpetual.
I do believe the Earl regarding his conversation with the then Prince Charles where he said Diana “would soon be forgotten” in a fit of pique after meeting resistance at his plan to have William and Harry walking behind their mother’s cortège. Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications, confirmed in his published diaries that the boys were used as human shields to prevent the crowd’s verbal abuse towards Charles on that grief filled walk to the Abbey.
Also, it’s true that a royal author and journalist - who was firmly in Charles’ camp during the “War of the Waleses” - wrote a piece where he states Charles “wished Diana nothing more than permanent oblivion”; you need to understand that he would have been briefed that from Charles’ office who were very aware of his thoughts about Diana.
It’s definitely a worthwhile read.
I do believe the Earl regarding his conversation with the then Prince Charles where he said Diana “would soon be forgotten” in a fit of pique after meeting resistance at his plan to have William and Harry walking behind their mother’s cortège. Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications, confirmed in his published diaries that the boys were used as human shields to prevent the crowd’s verbal abuse towards Charles on that grief filled walk to the Abbey.
Also, it’s true that a royal author and journalist - who was firmly in Charles’ camp during the “War of the Waleses” - wrote a piece where he states Charles “wished Diana nothing more than permanent oblivion”; you need to understand that he would have been briefed that from Charles’ office who were very aware of his thoughts about Diana.
It’s definitely a worthwhile read.
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September 24, 2026completely unnecessary book but loved the salacious vibe. Spencer is a good writer and he proves over and over again how the aristocracy is zero percent in touch with reality. no one needs to read this but I enjoyed being along for the Downton Abbey in 2026 ride.
September 29, 2026
This book was well-written but it really pmo. Incredibly dramatic and overly self-indulgent. I can respect the sibling grind of “how can I make their hardships about me” but good lord! He spent minimum 5 chapters hyping up his eulogy! This was not a memoir, and he wrote like he was trying to absolve himself of something. If you wanna write a book about yourself, don’t put it under Diana’s name for attention. If I were her, I’d haunt him 5ever after this.
September 22, 2026
I don’t think anyone is surprised I read this start to finish on release day.
Charles Spencer is first and foremost a great story teller. At no point did I feel lost in the order of things or question what the point was in him telling us what he did.
Of course people have their doubts as to how accurate his recollections are within here but isn’t that always the case with any book like this.
Taking it for what it is, knowing none of us will ever actually know what went on behind the scenes.. it was an enjoyable read and it felt like what he claims he wishes this to be - a brother’s final tribute to his sister.
Charles Spencer is first and foremost a great story teller. At no point did I feel lost in the order of things or question what the point was in him telling us what he did.
Of course people have their doubts as to how accurate his recollections are within here but isn’t that always the case with any book like this.
Taking it for what it is, knowing none of us will ever actually know what went on behind the scenes.. it was an enjoyable read and it felt like what he claims he wishes this to be - a brother’s final tribute to his sister.
September 28, 2026
At 7.12 on the morning of 3 September 1997, having no printer at home, Charles Spencer faxed four handwritten pages to himself. They had taken about ninety minutes to write. Three days later he read them aloud in Westminster Abbey, to his sister's former in-laws and an audience since estimated at 2.5 billion. Swan Song - Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer is the book he has built around those pages, and its organising decision deserves stating plainly: thirty chapters, each titled with a phrase from that speech, and then the speech itself as chapter thirty-one.
Thirty Chapters Named After a Single Morning's Work
Three strands alternate. One runs the week between the death and the funeral almost hour by hour: the phone ringing in Cape Town, the consecration of an island grave, a pontoon bridge thrown across a lake by army engineers. One runs his sister's life chronologically. The third tracks the drafting, from a crowded half-page of headings to the deletions he now regrets.
The payoff is real. By the time you reach the full text you have been shown the manufacture of nearly every clause, which converts a speech remembered as a howl of grief into a drafted document with intentions, written by a man who had spent a decade writing scripts for NBC News and knew how long a sentence can run before an unforgiving acoustic eats it.
What Swan Song - Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer Argues About a Schoolgirl
The strongest thesis here is not about palaces. Spencer has read every one of his sister's school reports, kindergarten to final term, and lays them out in sequence: short concentration, restlessness, a mind repeatedly called flighty, and not one instance across a decade of anybody offering practical help. She sat her O-levels and passed none. He describes her opening the envelope at their mother's house in Scotland, and the sound she made.
His argument is that this, not a divorce or a marriage, set the floor of her self-worth, and that she built a life of charitable work on top of the hole it left. He goes further and proposes a diagnosis nobody could have offered in 1972: undiagnosed ADHD, and the rejection sensitivity that often travels with it. He notes that he is neurodivergent himself and knows the condition from inside, which is both the claim's best support and the reason to read it as a brother's interpretation rather than a finding.
The Reporter Who Came to the Library
The reporting on Martin Bashir is the best sustained passage in Swan Song - Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer, and genuinely new in places, because Spencer kept everything. Approached in 1995 by a Panorama journalist who said explicitly that he did not want an interview, he was shown forged bank statements implicating his own former head of security and then two of his sister's senior staff. He checked the man with Panorama's executive producer, who said he was one of their finest. He then took him to meet his sister in a borrowed flat, and sat taking longhand notes in an NBC notebook while the claims got wilder.
Spencer worked out inside an hour that the man was lying and warned his sister as soon as he had gone. The account of what followed is unsparing about his own failure as well as the BBC's, and the documents in his safe at Althorp mattered to a judge-led inquiry twenty-five years later. He also traces a chain of consequence from that deception to a Paris underpass; the chain has a weak link or two, but it is argued rather than asserted.
Swan Song - Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer and the Question of a Single Witness
The passages that will generate headlines concern the present King, and a reader needs to be clear about their status. Spencer reports a phone call on the morning of the death in which he found the tone jarringly buoyant; a remark after their father's funeral in 1992 about the luck of inheriting young, delivered with a stamped foot; and a furious call about the boys walking behind their mother's coffin, ending in a line about how quickly she would be forgotten.
None of this is corroborated, and none of it can be. It is one man's memory of private conversations with someone who cannot answer in the same register. That matters here because Spencer is otherwise scrupulous with paper: faxes, memos, school reports, a secretary's typed note, his own handwritten proviso about the boys not being dragooned. The honest response is neither to swallow the anecdotes nor to dismiss them, but to notice that the evidentiary standard drops exactly where the temperature rises.
Where Swan Song - Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer Loses Its Footing
The chapter titles govern the chronology, and the chronology suffers. Because each heading is a phrase from the speech, the life strand lurches across decades. Several transitions are handbrake turns.
The drafting material outstays its welcome. Fascinating for twenty pages, then a concordance, with passages logging a deleted adverb.
Chapter thirty-one is redundant by design. Having walked you through almost every line, printing the speech entire adds ceremony, not information.
The case against the tabloids is made, then made again. It is the right case, argued with real evidence, and it recurs well past the point of persuasion.
The royal-anecdote layer sits oddly. A corgi's ear, a bottle of raffle sherry, an exiled great-uncle in spats. Entertaining, tonally strange in a book about a violent death.
Content Notes
Swan Song - Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer is heavier than its jacket suggests. A sibling's death in a car crash, narrated from inside the family. Suicidal ideation stated plainly by the author about himself and about his sister, in both cases with what stopped them. Eating disorders throughout, with weights given. The death of a newborn with severe malformations, and a mother prevented from holding him. Physical abuse of two small children by paid carers. A sexual assault on his sister, recounted to him by her. A stroke and long convalescence. Heavy drinking. Sustained press harassment, including of a bereaved family and a dying woman, and photographers at a fatal crash scene. A false public allegation of spousal abuse against the author's late father, rebutted at length. Divorce and custody proceedings.
The Verdict
The title of Swan Song - Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer comes from an epigraph about the swan's last and sweetest song, and from his observation that his sister died too suddenly to utter one of her own. He wrote hers. He is in his sixties now, neither parent reached seventy, and he says openly that this is a swan song of his own, and the only one of his ten books that matters to him.
What survives is smaller and better than the controversy. A nine-year-old leaving her classroom to check that her little brother has settled on his first day, then reporting that he is doing fine. A girl of five or six closing every curtain in a large house at dusk, which her brother reads as a child taking over a departed mother's job. Four black swans arriving at a lake as a stranger's gift, the morning after he had privately decided to find some. A man in a pulpit pretending to have mislaid his speech because he has just realised it is about to be vetted, reading a page of the prayer book instead.
Swan Song - Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer is partisan and says so on its first page. It is too clever structurally for its own chronology, and its hardest accusations rest on a single memory apiece. But it is the only account of that week by someone inside the family, the negotiations and the pulpit, and on what he can document, which is most of the book, he is precise, self-critical and frequently devastating. The shape is the argument, and the shape mostly holds.
Thirty Chapters Named After a Single Morning's Work
Three strands alternate. One runs the week between the death and the funeral almost hour by hour: the phone ringing in Cape Town, the consecration of an island grave, a pontoon bridge thrown across a lake by army engineers. One runs his sister's life chronologically. The third tracks the drafting, from a crowded half-page of headings to the deletions he now regrets.
The payoff is real. By the time you reach the full text you have been shown the manufacture of nearly every clause, which converts a speech remembered as a howl of grief into a drafted document with intentions, written by a man who had spent a decade writing scripts for NBC News and knew how long a sentence can run before an unforgiving acoustic eats it.
What Swan Song - Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer Argues About a Schoolgirl
The strongest thesis here is not about palaces. Spencer has read every one of his sister's school reports, kindergarten to final term, and lays them out in sequence: short concentration, restlessness, a mind repeatedly called flighty, and not one instance across a decade of anybody offering practical help. She sat her O-levels and passed none. He describes her opening the envelope at their mother's house in Scotland, and the sound she made.
His argument is that this, not a divorce or a marriage, set the floor of her self-worth, and that she built a life of charitable work on top of the hole it left. He goes further and proposes a diagnosis nobody could have offered in 1972: undiagnosed ADHD, and the rejection sensitivity that often travels with it. He notes that he is neurodivergent himself and knows the condition from inside, which is both the claim's best support and the reason to read it as a brother's interpretation rather than a finding.
The Reporter Who Came to the Library
The reporting on Martin Bashir is the best sustained passage in Swan Song - Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer, and genuinely new in places, because Spencer kept everything. Approached in 1995 by a Panorama journalist who said explicitly that he did not want an interview, he was shown forged bank statements implicating his own former head of security and then two of his sister's senior staff. He checked the man with Panorama's executive producer, who said he was one of their finest. He then took him to meet his sister in a borrowed flat, and sat taking longhand notes in an NBC notebook while the claims got wilder.
Spencer worked out inside an hour that the man was lying and warned his sister as soon as he had gone. The account of what followed is unsparing about his own failure as well as the BBC's, and the documents in his safe at Althorp mattered to a judge-led inquiry twenty-five years later. He also traces a chain of consequence from that deception to a Paris underpass; the chain has a weak link or two, but it is argued rather than asserted.
Swan Song - Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer and the Question of a Single Witness
The passages that will generate headlines concern the present King, and a reader needs to be clear about their status. Spencer reports a phone call on the morning of the death in which he found the tone jarringly buoyant; a remark after their father's funeral in 1992 about the luck of inheriting young, delivered with a stamped foot; and a furious call about the boys walking behind their mother's coffin, ending in a line about how quickly she would be forgotten.
None of this is corroborated, and none of it can be. It is one man's memory of private conversations with someone who cannot answer in the same register. That matters here because Spencer is otherwise scrupulous with paper: faxes, memos, school reports, a secretary's typed note, his own handwritten proviso about the boys not being dragooned. The honest response is neither to swallow the anecdotes nor to dismiss them, but to notice that the evidentiary standard drops exactly where the temperature rises.
Where Swan Song - Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer Loses Its Footing
The chapter titles govern the chronology, and the chronology suffers. Because each heading is a phrase from the speech, the life strand lurches across decades. Several transitions are handbrake turns.
The drafting material outstays its welcome. Fascinating for twenty pages, then a concordance, with passages logging a deleted adverb.
Chapter thirty-one is redundant by design. Having walked you through almost every line, printing the speech entire adds ceremony, not information.
The case against the tabloids is made, then made again. It is the right case, argued with real evidence, and it recurs well past the point of persuasion.
The royal-anecdote layer sits oddly. A corgi's ear, a bottle of raffle sherry, an exiled great-uncle in spats. Entertaining, tonally strange in a book about a violent death.
Content Notes
Swan Song - Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer is heavier than its jacket suggests. A sibling's death in a car crash, narrated from inside the family. Suicidal ideation stated plainly by the author about himself and about his sister, in both cases with what stopped them. Eating disorders throughout, with weights given. The death of a newborn with severe malformations, and a mother prevented from holding him. Physical abuse of two small children by paid carers. A sexual assault on his sister, recounted to him by her. A stroke and long convalescence. Heavy drinking. Sustained press harassment, including of a bereaved family and a dying woman, and photographers at a fatal crash scene. A false public allegation of spousal abuse against the author's late father, rebutted at length. Divorce and custody proceedings.
The Verdict
The title of Swan Song - Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer comes from an epigraph about the swan's last and sweetest song, and from his observation that his sister died too suddenly to utter one of her own. He wrote hers. He is in his sixties now, neither parent reached seventy, and he says openly that this is a swan song of his own, and the only one of his ten books that matters to him.
What survives is smaller and better than the controversy. A nine-year-old leaving her classroom to check that her little brother has settled on his first day, then reporting that he is doing fine. A girl of five or six closing every curtain in a large house at dusk, which her brother reads as a child taking over a departed mother's job. Four black swans arriving at a lake as a stranger's gift, the morning after he had privately decided to find some. A man in a pulpit pretending to have mislaid his speech because he has just realised it is about to be vetted, reading a page of the prayer book instead.
Swan Song - Diana, My Sister by Charles Spencer is partisan and says so on its first page. It is too clever structurally for its own chronology, and its hardest accusations rest on a single memory apiece. But it is the only account of that week by someone inside the family, the negotiations and the pulpit, and on what he can document, which is most of the book, he is precise, self-critical and frequently devastating. The shape is the argument, and the shape mostly holds.
October 13, 2026
I bought Swan Song: Diana, My Sister as soon it became available in bookstores about a month ago. I finished reading it a few hours ago. Charles Spencer has crafted a very matter-of-fact, well-crafted, and eloquent book about his lifelong relationship with his famous older sister, Princess Diana.
The book also sheds light on the 500 year history of the Spencer family. And at the same time, Charles Spencer helps recapture for the reader his reaction on learning of his sister's death in an auto accident in Paris in August 1997 to the moment he gave his sister's eulogy at Westminster Abbey 6 days later. (There are also several family photos in the book.)
To the reader of this review, I would like to leave with you a revelation Charles Spencer experienced whilst in rehearsal for Princess Diana's funeral:
"When I got to the top of the pulpit and looked out, my mind was racing. What to do?
"I realized in that moment that what I had to say was about to be vetted. It might then be edited - or even vetoed. I toyed with the microphone, playing for time, wondering what options were open to me. All the while, I was conscious of the keen air of expectation. While stalling, an idea suddenly came to me.
" 'God, I'm stupid!' I said, patting my pockets theatrically, and tossing my head back in exasperation. 'In all the excitement of getting here on time, I've only gone and left my speech at home!'
"The figures from the shadows looked at each other, aghast.
" 'Anyway,' I continued, 'let me read something else out, so you know how my voice sounds ...' I reached down, found a Book of Common Prayer, opened it at random, and started to deliver a passage from it. I had only uttered a line or two when I was abruptly cut off.
" 'That's fine!' barked a curt voice. 'We don't need any more, thank you.'
"I descended the steps, persisting in my role as an absent-minded, upper-class fool, embarrassed by my hopeless forgetfulness. I was met by looks of quiet anger and frustration.
"Relief swelled in my chest. I knew that, in avoiding the attempted ambush, I had preserved the integrity of my speech - keeping it for when it truly needed to be heard, in celebration of Diana, before the world."
The book also sheds light on the 500 year history of the Spencer family. And at the same time, Charles Spencer helps recapture for the reader his reaction on learning of his sister's death in an auto accident in Paris in August 1997 to the moment he gave his sister's eulogy at Westminster Abbey 6 days later. (There are also several family photos in the book.)
To the reader of this review, I would like to leave with you a revelation Charles Spencer experienced whilst in rehearsal for Princess Diana's funeral:
"When I got to the top of the pulpit and looked out, my mind was racing. What to do?
"I realized in that moment that what I had to say was about to be vetted. It might then be edited - or even vetoed. I toyed with the microphone, playing for time, wondering what options were open to me. All the while, I was conscious of the keen air of expectation. While stalling, an idea suddenly came to me.
" 'God, I'm stupid!' I said, patting my pockets theatrically, and tossing my head back in exasperation. 'In all the excitement of getting here on time, I've only gone and left my speech at home!'
"The figures from the shadows looked at each other, aghast.
" 'Anyway,' I continued, 'let me read something else out, so you know how my voice sounds ...' I reached down, found a Book of Common Prayer, opened it at random, and started to deliver a passage from it. I had only uttered a line or two when I was abruptly cut off.
" 'That's fine!' barked a curt voice. 'We don't need any more, thank you.'
"I descended the steps, persisting in my role as an absent-minded, upper-class fool, embarrassed by my hopeless forgetfulness. I was met by looks of quiet anger and frustration.
"Relief swelled in my chest. I knew that, in avoiding the attempted ambush, I had preserved the integrity of my speech - keeping it for when it truly needed to be heard, in celebration of Diana, before the world."
October 19, 2026
Un libro que me aportó muchos datos interesantes sobre la infancia y juventud de Diana. Sobre su familia y en especial la relación con su hermano. Detalles sobre el funeral que no sé si son públicos, pero que desconocía. En fin Diana seguirá siendo una figura relevante de la historia mundial y en mi caso siempre me ha interesado.
September 22, 2026
Not really a traditional biography, it’s mostly an extension of his eulogy to Diana. I would’ve preferred something much more thorough and balanced but it’s clear that a lot of love and care still went into this.
October 4, 2026
Memoirs are often so hard to rate, but I really enjoyed this one - both for the quality of the writing but the story being told. An interesting and painfully sad look at Diana’s life through the lens of her brother, bookmarked throughout with elements of his speech at her funeral.
October 3, 2026
The name of this book should have been "Charles, Diana's Brother" cuz it was all about him than her. It was like he was trying to show off the influence he had on his sister's life. Almost half the book was about his eulogy. The book lacked a complete depth. I am gonna give it only 2 stars. What a disappointment!
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