From claims about then-Prince Charles\u2019 treatment of Diana to an American politician who reportedly courted her after her divorce, here are some of the memoir\u2019s biggest revelations.<\/p>\n
PRINCESS DIANA COULD HAVE SURVIVED FATAL PARIS CRASH IF SHE MADE ONE SIMPLE CHOICE, INVESTIGATOR SAYS<\/a><\/p>\n Fox News may be compensated for or earn a commission if you buy through our referral links.<\/p>\n “Swan Song” is out now. (Steinway)<\/p>\n Charles’ reaction to Diana’s death<\/p>\n Spencer wrote that on the morning Diana died, then-Prince Charles sounded “giddily elated \u2013 like a lottery winner,” he remembered thinking at the time.<\/p>\n He wrote that Charles was “strangely matter-of-fact, given the enormity of the disaster.”<\/p>\n PRINCESS DIANA’S HONEYMOON LETTER REVEALS A YOUNG BRIDE ‘PLAYING WITH GROWN-UPS’ IN THE ROYAL FAMILY<\/a><\/p>\n Charles Spencer wrote a memoir about his sister Princess Diana called “Swan Song.” (\u00a9 The Spencer Family; Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)<\/p>\n In hindsight, Spencer wrote, he believed that Charles\u2019 first reaction to her death was that it likely freed him up to “marry the woman he loved, rather than appreciating the loss of one he did not.”<\/p>\n He also wrote that while they were arguing over funeral arrangements, Charles told him, “Rest assured \u2026 we’ll forget her soon enough!”<\/p>\n PRINCE HARRY’S RUMORED DIANA FILM ‘MIGHT FEEL LIKE ANOTHER BETRAYAL’ TO PRINCE WILLIAM AS RIFT GROWS: EXPERT<\/a><\/p>\n Spencer said he was stunned for a few seconds before responding, “I can\u2019t believe you just said that,” before hanging up.<\/p>\n Earlier in their conversation, Spencer wrote that Charles accused the Spencer family of having no sense of duty because Spener had objected to Princes Harry and William<\/a> walking behind their mother\u2019s coffin.<\/p>\n A photo of Princess Diana and Charles Spencer smiling together as kids. (Central Press\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n PRINCESS DIANA NEVER FORGAVE SARAH FERGUSON FOR ONE BETRAYAL THAT ENDED THEIR FRIENDSHIP: BOOK<\/a><\/p>\n Spencer wrote that he believed the diatribe was the result of Charles\u2019 “pent-up contempt for Diana, and his horror that the world was so bowled over by her death.”<\/p>\n After the excerpt from the book was released last week, Buckingham Palace issued a rare statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n “While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and color memory in ways others do not recognize, even many years after such a loss,” the statement said.<\/p>\n Diana considered moving to South Africa with heart surgeon boyfriend Prince Charles and Princess Diana ride in a carriage on their wedding day. (WireImage)<\/p>\n Spencer wrote that after falling in love with heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan following her divorce, Diana had the “na\u00efve yet impossible” dream of moving to South Africa \u2014 where Spencer lived at the time \u2014 with her boyfriend because England had become “intolerable” to her.<\/p>\n “Might they, she dared hope, move there together, and carve out a life?” he wrote.<\/p>\n He said she dreamed that Khan could work at a hospital in Cape Town, and they could live “happily \u2014 normally \u2014 nearby” her brother.<\/p>\n “The other side of the world seemed to offer the possibility of asylum,” he wrote.<\/p>\n INSIDE PRINCESS DIANA AND JFK JR.’S SECRET MEETING THAT FUELED ROMANCE RUMORS FOR DECADES<\/a><\/p>\n One of Diana\u2019s post-divorce suitors was an American politician<\/p>\n Spencer said that Diana once asked him if he thought she\u2019d make a good American first lady, explaining that one of her “many powerful aging American suitors, keen to secure her as the ultimate trophy wife, had told her he was sure to win the presidency if she married him.”<\/p>\n Princess Diana and Prince Charles seen together in 1991. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n He said that Diana was more “titillated” by the idea of living in the White House than by the prospect of marrying the “would-be elderly husband.”<\/p>\n Diana, he said, had a “mischievous attraction to reinventing herself in a role that would make her enemies in the British Royal Family sick with jealousy, while ushering in an era of glamour in the White House that would surely have surpassed even that of the Jackie Kennedy years.”<\/p>\n Diana almost canceled the \u2018Panorama\u2019 interview<\/p>\n Despite “Panorama” reporter Martin Bashir allegedly telling Diana a series of falsehoods, including that she was being surveilled by MI6, that Prince William<\/a> was unwittingly bugging her through a device on his watch and that her children\u2019s nanny had aborted Prince Charles’ child after an affair, Diana almost canceled the interview, Spencer said.<\/p>\n GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE<\/a><\/p>\n He wrote that the princess pulled out a few days before the interview was scheduled to take place.<\/p>\n But Bashir and the show\u2019s executive producer persisted, Spencer wrote. He said they arranged a clandestine meeting in a parking garage, where Spencer believes they persuaded Diana that her life was in “imminent” danger and that doing the interview was the best way to protect herself.<\/p>\n A view of Spencer’s handwritten eulogy notes for Diana’s funeral. (\u00a9 The Spencer Family)<\/p>\n Spencer depicts then-Prince Charles as resentful of his position<\/p>\n Spencer said he had a conversation with Charles after his own father\u2019s funeral, during which Charles told him he was “lucky” his father had died because he got to inherit when he was “so young.”<\/p>\n Charles allegedly said that while Spencer was inheriting his ancestral home of Althorp in his 20s, the prince complained that he was 43 and employed 50 people, “but my parents insist on treating me like \u2014 like a child!”<\/p>\n LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n He also wrote that when a senior courtier told Queen Elizabeth<\/a> that Charles resented a reprimand she had delivered through the courtier, the queen dismissed the concern, telling him: “He even resented it when I taught him the alphabet.”<\/p>\n Spencer also wrote that Diana told him early in her relationship with the prince that the queen had once considered having Charles\u2019 ears pinned back because their “protrusion” had caused him to be teased at school and mocked by the media. Prince Philip put a stop to it, however, according to Spencer.\u00a0<\/p>\n Spencer added that he didn\u2019t know whether the story was true, but said Diana believed it.<\/p>\n Earl Charles Spencer’s book “Swan Song” was released this week. 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