Princess Diana's brother spoke about Charles III's words "we will forget her soon"

A few days after the death of Princess Diana, King Charles III of Great Britain told her brother Charles Spencer that she would soon be forgotten. This was reported on September 16 by The Guardian newspaper with reference to Spencer's memoir "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister".

"Rest assured, we will forget her soon," the then Prince of Wales allegedly told his interlocutor.

According to the newspaper, the conversation took place during a tense dispute about Diana's funeral. Spencer insisted that the princess would not want her sons William, who was 15 at the time, and 12-year-old Harry to walk in the funeral procession behind their mother's coffin.

According to Spencer, shortly before the ceremony, one of Queen Elizabeth II's senior aides informed him that William and Harry would take part in the procession. Diana's brother opposed this decision, but a few minutes later Carl called him and insisted on his sons' participation.

It was during the ensuing argument that Karl, according to the author of the memoirs, uttered the phrase that Diana would soon be forgotten. Spencer wrote that he was stunned by these words.

"I can't believe you just said that," Spencer recalls responding.

According to the princess's brother, Karl's words reflected his accumulated disregard for Diana and dissatisfaction with the scale of the public reaction to her death.

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