Daily Mail publishes new excerpts from controversial memoir of Princess Diana's brother

The Daily Mail has obtained exclusive access to the memoirs of Princess Diana's younger brother, Earl Charles Spencer, and published some fragments from it. According to the author of the book “Swan Song”. Diana, my sister, Diana was so unhappy in her marriage to Prince Charles that she contemplated suicide and "repeatedly" travelled to the sea cliffs of Beachy Head in East Sussex, where many are taking their own lives.

According to Charles Spencer, a month before the wedding, Diana allegedly told her father that she “cannot take this step” – to marry Prince Charles, but her father then told her that “to back down is impossible.” On the eve of the wedding, Prince Charles allegedly told the bride that “happy to marry her, but he has no love for her.” And soon after Diana died, Charles sounded "happier than in all his years of marriage, like a man who won the lottery," according to Spencer's memoirs.

Earl Spencer also wrote that on the day of Diana's funeral, Queen Elizabeth II allegedly offered to return to her the title of princess, which Diana lost after her divorce from Prince Charles. The proposal was given to Diana's brother by the Queen's private secretary, Robert Fellowes. However, as the count writes, "the very fact of deprivation of the title - petty and vengeful - at one time very painfully wounded Diana." So he decided to give up this "consolation prize.".

The Daily Mail promises to publish new entries from the count's memoirs in the coming days. The official release of the book "Swan Song". Diana, My Sister is scheduled for September 22. King Charles III has already commented on the allegations in the first chapters of the book.

The marriage and divorce of Princess Diana and Prince Charles - through the eyes and words of journalists - in the material "Kommersant" "To become both a queen and a martyr.".

Alena Miklashevskaya