Charles Spencer will tell the story of his sister, Diana, Princess of Wales, in a new book, The Guardian reports.
Penguin Press is set to publish Spencer’s Swan Song: Diana, My Sister next month. The press calls the book “the most intimate, loving, and honest portrait yet of his sister.”
Diana captured the imagination of the world when she married Charles, Prince of Wales—now King Charles III—in 1981. She was known for her activism on behalf of people living with HIV and AIDS; she made headlines in 1987 when she shook hands with a patient with AIDS at a London hospital.
She and Charles divorced in 1996. The following year, Diana was killed in a car crash in France that also took the life of her partner, Dodi Fayed, and their chauffeur, Henri Paul. Her funeral, broadcast on television, drew more than 2 billion viewers across the world.
Charles Spencer is a journalist who worked for NBC News from 1986 to 1995 and is now a columnist for the Financial Times. He is the author of several books, including The Spencers: A Personal History of an English Family; Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared To Execute Charles I; and A Very Private School: A Memoir.
“With the 30th anniversary of Diana’s tragic death on the skyline, I’ve been inundated yet again with requests for interviews about my sister,” Spencer told The Guardian. “This has convinced me to write down my own thoughts and memories, once and for all, rather than having the discomfort of again reading the opinions of others, many of which are based on untruths that have become accepted over time.”
Swan Song is slated for publication on Sept. 22.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
